Lamar Public Library

Come to the construction site and read about the eight construction vehicles that rumble and boom their way through this book.

"Come on down to the construction site! Meet the mega machines that will help workers build a brand-new school"--Back cover.

It is Christmas Eve, and all the construction vehicles are finishing up work on the site, and when they leave they find that there is a special present waiting for each of them.

In rhyming text, the vehicles of the construction crew set to work demolishing an old rickety building--the necessary first step to building something new.

Illustrations and rhyming text show the enormous and powerful machines that are used to demolish a building so that a playground can be built.

Told in rhyming text, six farm vehicles work through all the seasons, from spring planting to building a barn to protect the animals in winter.

Ages 18 months and up. In rhyming text, Bulldozer and all his construction friends work together on the construction site, making lots of noise throughout the day. Sound panel attached to extended inside back cover is keyed to illustrations and text and produces sounds when buttons are pressed.

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Ann, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they go to a little country town where they find that one new job leads to another.

"Bulldozers, dump trucks, and cranes are just a few of the vehicles working together in these pages to build something incredible. The payloader makes the hole for the foundation ("dig"), the semi-loader brings in the huge blocks ("haul"), and the crane lifts them up ("hoist"). But is this a real construction site, or a boy's backyard? And after the structure is done, what happens next? Yes, the inevitable: he makes it all tumble down and is ready...

At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.