On the Construction Site (Shine-a-Light Series)

by Carron Brown

Overview

Young builders will delight in exploring all the hidden secrets of a construction site. They simply hold the book’s pages to the light to “see-through” everything that’s being built – inside and out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610673709
Publisher:	Kane Miller
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Series:	Shine-a-Light Series
Pages:	36
Sales rank:	213,172
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

"The inventive Shine-a-Light series here focuses on perennially kid-popular technology topics. Blocky, colorful illustrations of trains and construction sites reveal hints of behind-the-scenes details when held to light; turn the page and see black-and-white illustration of the full scene inside the train car, engine, skyscraper, wall, etc. Vehicles and machines are defined in each book's appended glossary. Recommended." — The Horn Book Magazine


"This is a fascinating book! … Kids will be mesmerized. Recommend this to the entire young crowd who like trucks and bulldozers and construction." — Massachusetts Librarians Youth Services Review


"…a wonderful text to start conversations about shadows; construction of a skyscraper; and construction vehicles, planning, and careers." — Unleashing Readers

From the Publisher

11/01/2015
PreS-Gr 2—These amusing and interactive offerings will make fun bedtime stories as well as good guessing games. Illustrations hide an animal or object, and the text gives a few vague clues. The big reveal comes when readers backlight the page (either by using a flashlight or by holding the open book to the light) to "look inside" and see a white-on-black image on the verso. Secrets of Winter depicts a herd of deer hiding behind fir trees, and in Construction Site children will find a bulldozer working within a building foundation. The text offers just enough additional information to provide context and answer simple questions, and there's some further content in the back matter, covering topics such as different construction vehicles. VERDICT While many other books tackle these popular topics in much more detail, the novelty of the shine-a-light feature adds a little extra fun.—Jennifer Wolf, Beaverton City Library, OR

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