A New Favorite

My kiddo has a new favorite book.  First the obsession was trains, then alligators, now we have moved onto excavators and other construction machines.  Lucky for me, there is a super cute book out there all about excavators, dump trucks, bulldozers and more.

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker is the perfect book to indulge in this latest obsession.  The lyrical and rhyming text slowly puts each of the "rough and tough" construction trucks to bed.  The text describes the jobs of crane trucks, cement mixers, dump trucks, bulldozers and my son's favorite, excavators.

Even more than the rhyming text, my son loves the pictures.  Tom Lichtenheld, author and/or illustrator of many other New York Times best selling books like, Duck! Rabbit! and Shark VS Train, does a wonderful job incorporating the artwork with the text.  One of my favorite pages is when the dump truck is falling asleep.  In the picture the sleeping zzzzz's are floating above the truck and continue into the framework of the building.  It is cleverly subtle, I love it!

 My son loves pointing out the different machines that are found in the pictures and telling each of the trucks good night, even though we are currently reading this five or more times a day!  So for now this is our favorite book.  What is your kiddo's favorite book to read over and over these days?

Happy Reading!
Laura