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a book about construction workers and all that they do on the construction site
1 book

I, personally, wasn't crazy about the book as a whole. But I do like Eve Merriam's poetry, and poetry is more accessible to children when set up so there's a picture for every line. This is especially true when it's an older poem and the children might not know about pickaxes, plaster, chimneys, etc.

I thought it was neat that this poem had both vocabulary words like those, and words that pre-readers can actually learn themselves, for example 'bam' (of course) and then 'slam' and the delightful 'zam.' I also think it's a book that I wouldn't mind re-reading to the children, assuming my prediction is correct that they would ask me to do so. ( )