Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

By Sherri Duskey Rinke, Tom Lichtenheld (illustrator),

Book cover of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

Book description

The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book now available in board book!

An unabridged board book for kids version of the bestselling, best-beloved hardcover, perfect for small hands! Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines, rest their wheels, and drift to sleep with this…

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Why read it?

2 authors picked Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sometimes, things that are mainstream-popular are mainstream-popular for a reason. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site may be the Starbucks of big-truck-oriented kidlit, but every once in a while, you just want a nice, reliable $7 latte instead of a matcha-oat-single-origin-barista-art-cortado out of a chipped vintage teacup.

And, sometimes, your kids want the same book they read at daycare with their friends instead of one of Mom or Dad’s gold or silver nostalgia trips. Luckily, GGCS lives up to its best-selling reputation: it rhymes, the illustrations are pretty, and the dump truck is a girl. It just goes to show that, sometimes,…

In this toddler classic, each truck from the construction site finishes its work for the day and goes to sleep. 

Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, Dump Truck, Bulldozer, and Excavator turn off their engines, rest their wheels, and drift to sleep in gently rhyming text. My grandson puts his finger to his lips and says, “Shhhh” to each one.

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