Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

by Brianna Caplan Sayres Narrated by Philip Hernandez

Overview

Truck-obsessed toddlers will want to make the diggers, tractors, fire engines, and more featured in this fun-filled construction tale part of their nightly bedtime routines!

Discover what bedtime looks like for the snowplows, dump trucks, giant cranes, and more that dot the pages of this irresistible construction story. Just like you and me, the vehicles in this story get tuckered out after a long day of hard work and need to quiet down and settle in for sweet dreams. Young readers will surely identify as these trucks ask for one more story while their parents sing them a goodnight song and send them off to bed.

With a sweet rhyme scheme and an illustration style that's perfect for nighttime rituals, Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? and its things-that-go companions-Where Do Steam Trains Sleep At Night?, Where Do Jet Planes Sleep At Night?, Where Do Speedboats Sleep at Night?, and Where Do Diggers Celebrate Christmas?-will leave vehicle-loving kids snuggled up and satisfied.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Sure to find an audience among small fans of big trucks." —Booklist

"Trucks can be big and noisy and moderately terrifying. Caught right, as here—what's not to love?" —Kirkus Reviews

"A solid choice for any truck-obsessed preschooler... Fun, imaginative verse appears on every page." —School Library Journal

"Taking you from the construction site to the farm to the monster truck arena and more, little ones will be ready to close their eyes by the time they've visited each truck."  —Random Acts of Reading

"This book is just plain adorable! ...The rhyming text compliments with words that are perfectly matched to the individual machine."  —Youth Services Book Review

"A must have for every little one who is a big truck/construction truck lover!" —CMLD Kids/Teens Book Reviews

"The pictures in this book are amazing and the rhyming phrases that accompany them make this a super cute story." —Kiss the Book (a book review site for school librarians)

Kirkus Reviews

Another good old truck book; they never come amiss. Newcomer Sayres hits plenty of sweet notes with this tribute to the trucks of our world, singing them off to sleep in comforting couplets. "Where do diggers sleep at night? / Do they dream of holes they dug?" Children's identification with these beasts of the road and worksite is swift and complete. Dump trucks, fire trucks, car transporters, garbage trucks: "Where do garbage trucks sleep / when they're done collecting trash? / Do their dads sniff their load and say, / ‘Pee-yew—time to take a bath'?" So there is a touch of low comedy, too, as well as the kind of inclusive generosity that welcomes monster trucks into their midst. Plus a natty tongue-twister to hurry along those nodding off to sleep: "Do their flashing fire-red beacons / make for super-bright night-lights?" Slade's artwork is dessert rich, with great soupy smiles and droopy eyes, backdrops of small towns here and small cities there, all under blueberry-stained night skies. For all the heavy lifting, this book works well as a lullaby, the illustrations shifting neatly, if predictably, at the end to a little boy's room and its bevy of toy trucks. Trucks can be big and noisy and moderately terrifying. Caught right, as here—what's not to love? (Picture book. 3-6)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940203703095
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	10/21/2025
Series:	Where Do...Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

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