It is Christmas Eve, and all the construction vehicles are finishing up work on the site, and when they leave they find that there is a special present waiting for each of them.

Illustrations and rhyming text show the enormous and powerful machines that are used to demolish a building so that a playground can be built.

Smash! Crash! Ka-boom! A is for Aerial lift. B is for Backhoe. C is for Cement Mixer. Readers explore construction equipment in this noisy alphabet book. Jerry Pallotta's trademark humor punctuates the informative text. Vibrant oil paintings bring to life a busy construction site.

Demonstrates how the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and other construction machines all play a part in building a new park.

As children watch over the course of a year, builders construct a rollercoaster using tools and materials that begin with each letter of the alphabet.

"Construction equipment is a favorite of little readers and D is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction up close and personal"--

A little yellow pickup truck longs to be included when larger, more powerful vehicles help build a children's park, but he is soon given a task that is just right for him.

A father and his young child watch the construction of the new school, from the bulldozing of earth and mixing of the concrete for the foundation to the hanging of the new sign.

Told in rhyme, the big construction trucks are skeptical when Kid McGear the skid-steer shows up on the big construction site, after all a skid-steer is rather small--but when the big trucks run into trouble on a steep incline, Kid McGear proves that sometimes a small all-purpose truck may be just what is needed to save the day.

What can we spot on the construction site today? Shine a light behind the page and see. From the crane driver high up in his cab and engineers digging deep underground, to bulldozers and all kinds of machines, each page-turn will take you behind the scenes of a busy construction site.