Builder Goose: It’s Construction Rhyme Time!

Mother Goose rhymes are given construction site context in an upbeat collection of poems joined by equally friendly images of industrious animals operating tools and equipment in scenes that have a chunky, three-dimensional quality. “Three Blind Mice” is restaged with a trio of dump trucks (“They wait in line to pick up their load/ of dirt or big rocks, then they head down the road”); a “[c]rumbling bridge is falling down/ falling down/ falling down”; and a mouse and cat “Sing a song of garbage,/ a bucketful of trash./ Four and twenty loads of it—/ ready to be mashed!” Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site will want to pick this one up. Ages 3–6. (Mar.)