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Synopsis
It begins with an empty city lot and ends with a gleaming new building. But what happens in between? With his trademark sketch pad, watercolors, and sharp eye for atmosphere and detail, Elisha Cooper takes note of what goes on at a construction site -- from the obvious to the not-so-obvious. And curious young builders will relish his funny observations and unfailing scrutiny. There are backhoes that look like messy eaters, and lots of hammering that sounds like do-re-mi. Come see (and hear) the building -- it's going up now!
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About the Author
Elisha Cooper is the award-winning author of Farm, Beach, Magic Thinks Big, and Dance!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, as well as other acclaimed titles. His books for adults include the memoir Crawling: A Father's First Year.
Elisha Cooper lives with his family in New York City. He has loved some great dogs in his life.
Elisha Cooper is the award-winning author of Farm, Beach, Magic Thinks Big, and Dance!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, as well as other acclaimed titles. His books for adults include the memoir Crawling: A Father's First Year.
Elisha Cooper lives with his family in New York City. He has loved some great dogs in his life.
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2-Architects, carpenters, masons, backhoes, cranes, lunch trucks, scaffolds, plastic sheets, and Porta Pottis are all part of the fascinating process of turning a vacant lot into a multistoried office building. Cooper fills these white pages with loosely sketched, watercolor-and-pencil renderings of construction-related people and things as he chronicles the events on a building site. The text design often reflects the activity taking place on the page and sometimes requires readers to rotate the book. The illustrations effectively capture the bustle and camaraderie of the multiethnic and gender-balanced crew, but are occasionally too blurry to be easily interpreted. The hand-printed labels accompanying some drawings are also frequently illegible. However, the text not only delivers a realistic description of the sights, sounds, and even smells of a construction site, but can also be whimsically fanciful, as when the backhoe "gnaws into the earth and scoops up dirt like a messy eater trying to bring food to its mouth." The challenging vocabulary requires a more sophisticated audience than Sue Tarsky's The Busy Building Book (Putnam, 1998), but this book hits the nail on the head for slightly older sidewalk superintendents.
Carol Ann Wilson, Westfield Memorial Library, NJ
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherGreenwillow Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0688164943
- ISBN 13 9780688164942
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages40
- IllustratorCooper Elisha
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