Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

by Brianna Caplan Sayres, Christian Slade (Illustrator)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375868481
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	05/22/2012
Series:	Where Do...Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	43,288
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD510L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

BRIANNA CAPLAN SAYRES didn't know anything about trucks—until her two-year-old son started to teach her everything about them. Now she and her husband put two boys to bed each night in a Seattle home filled with diggers, dump trucks, and fire engines. Brianna has followed the success of Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? with a whole array of Where Do...books featuring steam trains, jet planes, speedboats, and everyone's favorite diggers celebrating holidays! You can visit Brianna on the Web at briannacaplansayres.com and facebook.com/authorbrianna.

CHRISTIAN SLADE's classic, distinctive art style can be found in picture books, novels, and magazines and graphic novels for children. He holds an MA in Illustration from Syracuse University, as well as a BFA in Drawing and Animation from the University of Central Florida. He lives with his wife and two children in Florida. Visit him on the Web at ChristianSlade.com.

Editorial Reviews

"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)

From the Publisher

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)

Kirkus Reviews

PreS-K—With its gentle tone, soft colors, and singsong rhyme scheme, this book is a solid choice for any truck-obsessed preschooler. Each page follows the imagined bedtime routine of grand vehicles like garbage trucks, monster trucks, snowplows, and even fire trucks. Fun, imaginative verse appears on every page: "Where do monster trucks sleep/when they've done a day of crushing?/Do they find a giant puddle/ when their metal teeth need brushing?" The final spread shows a sleepy boy safely tucked into bed, surrounded by his sleepy-looking, smiling toys. The illustrations of cartoon trucks with expressive faces give away Slade's Disney animator background. Pair this selection with Katherine Ayres's Matthew's Truck (Candlewick, 2005) and you've snagged the attention of young truck fanatics.—Jasmine L. Precopio, Fox Chapel Area School District, Pittsburgh, PA

School Library Journal

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