Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site Book, Sound Book and Matching Game Bundle (2011)

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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.

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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker (2011)

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Each of the machines on a construction site winds down their work and tucks themselves in to sleep.

Very cute, with good rhyming. The illustrations of construction trucks with little blankets on their backs or holding teddy bears are extremely cute. However, I do wish that ALL of the trucks didn’t use he/him pronouns. They’re trucks, can’t one of them be not male? (

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norabelle414 | Feb 22, 2024 |

Cheerful art, flawless rhythm, and lots of construction equipment make this one a classic. (

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sloth852 | Jan 12, 2024 |

A fantastic vocabulary builder with a delightful rhythm! This sweet story is a fast favorite of boys and girls alike! Learn more about what those big machines do all day before you help tuck them in for the night. (

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VictoriaBrodersen | Oct 27, 2023 |

Genre
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Whimsical
Illustration
Cartoony
Subject
Building
Construction equipment
Earthmoving machinery
Trucks
Character
Anthropomorphic

kmgerbig | May 10, 2023 |

Totally inspired. Wonderful bedtime book for my truck obsessed child. Bonus--it uses the correct names for the trucks!
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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Sherri Duskey Rinker	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Lichtenheld, Tom	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site / Steam Train, Dream Train by Sherri Duskey Rinker

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Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

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2011

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For one blue-eyed boy and one brown-eyed boy and the world of wonder and possibility I see through their eyes. And, always, for Faith.—S. R.

To Jan, for sharing a dream.—T. L.

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Down in the big construction site,
The tough trucks work with all their might
To build a building, make a road,
To get the job done—load by load!

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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.

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For me, the powerful aspect to this book is the rhyming aspect. It seems children appreciate the rhythmic quality and certainly research shows this approach can be powerful for early development. As the book's title gives away, this book is about a construction site being put to bed. The author gives a sort of human quality to the construction site machinery. One thing I might do with this one is not put a gender to the machines. I found myself taking the word "him" out when I read it to children so not to assume machinery would have to have a macho quality.

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