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Daniel Kirk.
"Over by the dirt pile in the sizzling summer sun / works a mama bulldozer with her little dozer ONE." Each of ten taut rhymes (which follow the scheme of "Over in the Meadow") spotlights a parent-truck-and-offspring collaboration. Catchy rhymes, cheerful-looking trucks with individualizing features, onomatopoeia ("moosh moosh"), and words that stutter ("s-s-swoop s-s-swup")--what preschooler would turn away?