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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
February, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5830-4$15.99
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Illustrated by
Brian Lovelock.
A demolition crew tears down an old building, sorts scraps of material, and hauls the debris off to make room for a new construction project, revealed at the end to be a playground. The rhyming text, full of onomatopoeia and muscular action words, captures the excitement and energy of big trucks hard at work. Meticulous illustrations give the job site a suitably dusty patina.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2012