Will I love Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site?

This is one of my favourite books to read to a child at bedtime.

Its rhythm and rhyme have an almost lullaby effect with a soothing tone. So many children are fascinated by big trucks, bulldozers, and building sites, but this story is different as the busy, noisy site is going to sleep. The loud machines are quietening down, giving the child the message that it’s time to settle down, as the world is now going to sleep.

The illustrations painted under a night sky are another way the book projects its time to sleep. Each machine on the building… show more.

Sometimes, things that are mainstream-popular are mainstream-popular for a reason. Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site may be the Starbucks of big-truck-oriented kidlit, but every once in a while, you just want a nice, reliable $7 latte instead of a matcha-oat-single-origin-barista-art-cortado out of a chipped vintage teacup.

And, sometimes, your kids want the same book they read at daycare with their friends instead of one of Mom or Dad’s gold or silver nostalgia trips. Luckily, GGCS lives up to its best-selling reputation: it rhymes, the illustrations are pretty, and the dump truck is a girl. It just goes to show that, sometimes,… show more.

In this toddler classic, each truck from the construction site finishes its work for the day and goes to sleep. 

Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, Dump Truck, Bulldozer, and Excavator turn off their engines, rest their wheels, and drift to sleep in gently rhyming text. My grandson puts his finger to his lips and says, “Shhhh” to each one.