Sherri Duskey Rinker

Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines and snuggle up with these sweet and soothing stories. Gentle rhyming text and vibrant art make these books surefire bedtime favorites for train- and construction-crazy kids everywhere.

In this book with rhyming text, the dream train pulls into the station and all the different cars are loaded by the animal workers, each with the appropriate cargo.

Told in rhyming text, six farm vehicles work through all the seasons, from spring planting to building a barn to protect the animals in winter.

Describes the life of the children's book author and illustrator, conveying her life at Folly Cove, her love of dance, and how she was able to create images of machinery, including those used in her book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.

In rhyming text, the vehicles of the construction crew set to work demolishing an old rickety building--the necessary first step to building something new.

As he works, Cement Mixer makes a little song of all the construction words from A to Z.

Little mouse cannot sleep because it is too quiet, but when he really listens he finds the night is full of all sorts of sounds--so many, in fact, that it is too noisy to sleep--

The construction crew is counting on Excavator, as he and Dump Truck count off the ten tasks they need to do on their construction site.

When, two weeks before Christmas, the elves discover that Santa's sleigh is in a bad state, twelve teams of elves set out to build twelve different sleighs: a souped up hot rod, a semitruck that flies, a ship that sails in the sky, and each version is more elaborate than the one before--but which will Santa choose?

Mientras se esconde el sol detrás del sitio de construcción, todas las máquinas trabajadoras se preparan para decir buenas noches. Una por una, Grúa, Mezcladora, Volquete, Niveladora y Excavadora terminan su trabajo y se acuestan a descansar-¡alistándose para otro día de construcción y diversion! Con ilustraciones irresistibles del reconocido artista Tom Lichtenheld y simpático texto en rima, este libro emocionará a todos los niños amantes...