Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by John Rocco. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-544-71557-8
Rinker and Rocco reveal how Virginia Lee Burton transformed her children’s love of powerful vehicles into a string of picture books, including her Caldecott Medal–winning The Little House. Burton’s study of art and dance are on full display in Rocco’
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by A.G. Ford. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-3911-1
Christmas has arrived at the construction site, and the trucks are finishing up their hard work building a special house. As night comes and snow falls, each truck receives a special gift. Writing in upbeat couplets, Rinker describes each truck’s...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0920-6
Like this team’s bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, this vehicular bedtime book revs up before winding down, and both text and art smoothly transition from stimulating to soothing. A train stops at the “Night Falls” station to pick
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Matt Myers. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-90429-2
Rinker (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site) moves from hard-at-work vehicles to an equally determined canine in a very earnest story about a dog who refuses to listen to others’ negative opinions. Tiny, a brown and white pup, sends dirt flying...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $7.99 (20p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4914-1
This spin-off of Rinker and Lichtenheld’s bestselling Steam Train, Dream Train takes readers from one to 10 as they check out the activities taking place in a string of train cars. The events pictured in Lichtenheld’s humorously detailed images aren’
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Jake Parker. Chronicle, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4514-3
In this competition-minded holiday tale, Santa’s elves discover that bigger and newer isn’t always better. As the elves prepare to tune up Santa’s sleigh for its Christmas Eve trip, they discover that it’s a wreck: “The sleigh is totaled, smashed,...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Patrick McDonnell. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-227105-1
Readers may recognize McDonnell’s (Thank You and Good Night) work here by the Krazy Kat schnozz on the rambunctious toddler who stars in this cozy mother-to-child love letter. Rinker (Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site) gives each sentence its...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7782-4
A noisy construction site may be an unorthodox setting for a bedtime story, but newcomer Rinker and Lichtenheld (Shark vs. Train) tie together the dual themes neatly. Though more subdued than the trucks that drive Kate and Jim McMullan’s I Stink!...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5216-5
The five industrious vehicles previously spotlighted in the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site eagerly start a new day in this sequel, which brings the machines new challenges and welcome assistance. Recharged and revved up, the...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Chronicle, $7.99 (10p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6476-2
This polished spin-off of Rinker and Lichtenheld’s bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site features graduated pages shaped like five construction vehicles. Rinker’s sturdy rhymes touch on how the vehicles operate (“Bulldozer pushes on...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Tony Fucile. Chronicle, $17.99 (56p) ISBN 978-1-4521-4544-0
This bedtime book by Rinker opens at the close of a day, with creatures settling down in a country setting. An anthropomorphic mother mouse is kept up by her exasperated child, who exclaims, “It’s TOO QUIET!” But Mama explains that “the small sweet...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by A.G. Ford. Chronicle, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4521-5582-1
A peppy little skid steer called Kid McGear joins the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site creators’ crew, but while their welcome is cordial, the five trucks underestimate Kid’s size and strength. Crane Truck says, “You don’t look quite strong...
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Sherri Duskey Rinker, illus. by Don Tate. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-53496-3
When a lightning strike results in a canyon fire, the job of extinguishing it is tailor-made for green-eyed helicopter Roto (“fueled and ready, brave and strong./ Her shiny wings are tough and long”) and brown-skinned human pilot Roy, who is the...
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