Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site

This is a great book to keep in your reading center. This book discusses things you would see at a construction site. The children love to read this book before nap time. They also like to help read the book. You can use this book whenever you choose.

Adorable and nicely calm

Great for bedtime, full of evocative pictures with expressive characters and beautiful subtle backgrounds. would recommend for bedtime reading for any 2-6 year old.

Fun and my 2-year-old likes it but yet another kids' book with all male pronouns. So things get switched around when we read it.

This book is about the hard work/day and nights work of construction machines. This book gives personification to tractors, cranes and trucks. In this story night time is full of fun. The illustrations in this book are really cute. This is another story I could use in a lesson in teaching fantasy

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and realism. This book uses a lot of repetition so that younger children are able to recognize different words over and over in their learning process.

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A fun book about what all of the construction vehicles do before they say goodnight.The text is simple and rhyming good for beginner readers and all boys would love this one, my grandson sure did.

One by one, the big machines of the construction site wrap up their work for the day and head for home.

Illustrations mingle with text to provide a lovely picture of all in the construction world shutting down and going to sleep.

“Pushing with his mighty blade,
Bulldozer works to smooth the

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grade.
He clears the way to level ground,
And fills the air with thunderous sound (rooaar!)
No one’s as tough and strong as he,
But now he’s sleepy as can be.”

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Rhyming text is wonderful for a goodnight story. The illustrations are wonderfully detailed.

The book has talks about big tough trucks that play hard all day settling in for bed. The illustrations make the work trucks look friendly and to which a child can relate. Has hushed tones and rhythmic story. 4 stars.

Although the subject of this book did not interest me too much, I could see how young boys would like it. It's about all the different machines used at a construction site. We discover the work they accomplish during the day and then we them going to bed after a long day of work and play.

Take a trip through a construction site as they prepare for the night after a long day of hard work. Watch as the tractor snuggles up close to a dirt pile, or his blanket and pillow. Or, as the crane falls asleep to the light of his night-light hanging above him on his hook. Making nighttime seem

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not so much like nighttime in this fun and cute story, illustrator Lichtenheld does it again bringing the trucks and vehicles to life right in front of us. Illustrator of New York Times bestselling books including “Shark vs Train,” “Duck! Rabbit!,” and of course “Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site,” Lichtenheld ensures that this story is worth reading and sharing with young children. Duskey-Rinker makes the story an easy read with the rhyming and fun text throughout the book. The repetition throughout the book also makes for a fun read with smaller children. Reading this story will make nighttime seem not so much a chore any more, but instead a magical and fun time for both parents and children.

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After a long, hard day of work at the construction site industrious anthropomorphic construction trucks say goodnight. A bedtime book for big truck lovers everywhere, the trite and sometimes awkward end-rhyming scheme of the text invites children onto the construction site for a behind-the-scenes

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look where the trucks do all the work themselves. This clumsy story seems to rhyme just for the sake of rhyming, and yet sometimes it doesn’t even succeed at that. The phrasing of some lines makes this a problematic read aloud book, forcing the reader to repeat lines until they flow correctly. Able to stand alone without any text, the vibrant oil pastel illustrations skillfully invite the reader into the story with intricate detail and an amusing whimsy that fills each page. Preschoolers will be attracted to these brightly sanitized visions of hard-working construction equipment from their favorite construction site without having to make the trip there themselves.

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A story about all of the big machines in a construction site going to bed. very cute illustrations. my nephew's favorite :)

After a hard day's work, all of the construction trucks prepare to say goodnight and go to sleep. This is a good bedtime story similar to Goodnight Moon, but with a a more modern twist. I find this book particularly useful for toddler boys, but good truly be used as a bedtime story for all young

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children.

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My 2 yr old son LOVES this book, and so do I. Not only are the pictures really well done and very sweet (not to mention he loves to point out the owl and cardial that appear on some pages), the rhyming of the story is written really well. I don't love to read all my sons books to him over and over

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again, but this one I never tire of reading.

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This story is a great one to share with any young one. Both girls and boys will love the fun colorful illustrations. Children have the chance to learn about the different trucks and what they do on a construction site while being completely entertained. Fun book!

What happens to the hardworking construction machinery after a hard days work? Well they clean themselves up, snuggle in with their teddy bears and blankies and fall asleep. At least that is the story behind this book. One by one each truck on the construction site finish their work, have their

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nightly routine, and head off to bed for another day of hard work.

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A bedtime story for truck-loving toddlers.

This story is good because it talks about a real life job and teacher students about construction work.

great book for little ones.

Summary: This book is about the night coming and going through the construction site saying goodnight to all the different tractors and equipment.
Review: Beautiful illustrations, cute story line, and a great way for kids to learn different construction trucks and machines.

This book is a good bedtime story that children will enjoy. Specially little boys that dream with one day driving heavy machinery.

"Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site" is a cute easy read for children. Perfect for bedtime story and with nice illustrations of vehicles calling it a day.

Tom Lichtenheld's illustrations drew me to Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker. The book is a rhyming story about the process of going to bed, similar in spirit to The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton or Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (and its many

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parodies).

Here, though, the creatures going to bed are construction equipment. It would be a good book to read in conjunction with Job Site by Nathan Clement and Hard Hat Area by Susan L. Roth.

As a stand-alone story about bedtime, it's lacking something. The rhymes are soothing and the illustrations are adorable but seeing construction equipment put themselves to bed is also odd. My daughter even commented on how strange it was that the trucks were the ones going to bed, rather than the people driving them. The book, perhaps, would work better as a bedtime story for younger children (ages 2-3), and less as a read alone book for older children.

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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.