Bookshelf: September 2008
Good Morning, Digger

by Anne Rockwell
illustrated by Melanie Hope Greenberg
Viking, 2005
A trashy vacant lot becomes a community center in this satisfying story. Energetic text and bright, primary-colored illustrations capture the excitement of watching construction machines at work. The best part is that Digger, Flatbed, Crane, and even Silver Lunch Truck aren’t simply machines but the story’s hard-working main characters, just as they are to truck-obsessed kids.



