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- Going to the job site with Dad in this beloved bedtime book The Night Worker, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year.
- 3-6 Years
- 9.78" x 9.16" Paperback
- 40 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Business, Careers, Occupations
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Alex wants to be a "night worker" like his father who goes to work at a construction site after Alex goes to bed. Then one night Papa has a surprise--a hard hat for Alex! He takes Alex with him to work, where excavators rumble and cement mixers hum like a dream come true. Full color.Book Synopsis
Going to the job site with Dad in this beloved bedtime book The Night Worker, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year.
When darkness falls and bedtime comes, Papa tucks Alex in, then puts on his hard hat and goes to work. Papa is an engineer who works at night. "Take me with you," Alex says. "Not tonight," says Papa. But one night Papa has a surprise -- a hard hat for Alex! He takes Alex with him to the construction site, where excavators rumble and cement mixers hum. As his dream comes true, Alex gets to be a night worker just like Papa. Kate Banks's evocative text and Georg Hallensleben's colorful paintings combine to make a unique bedtime book that will delight all children, especially those who are fascinated by big machines.Review Quotes
"[A] sublime evening story . . . Banks' elegant, simple words and poetic images and rhythms evoke the book's exciting activity . . . Hallensleben's paintings extend the story's balance of exhilarating intensity and reassuring calm . . . A lovely, affecting portrait of a father and son and of the night world." --Starred, Booklist
"The pictured warmth of the father-son relationship combines with restrained yet poetic text to make this 'take your son to work night' a special one indeed." --Kirkus Reviews "A mesmerizing description of a busy nighttime realm, illuminated by blazing headlights and framed by silent skyscrapers." --Starred, Publishers WeeklyAbout the Author
Kate Banks (1960 - 2024) wrote many books for children, among them Max's Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She grew up in Maine, where she and her two sisters and brother spent a lot of time outdoors, and where Banks developed an early love of reading. Banks attended Wellesley College and received her master's in history at Columbia University. She lived in Rome for eight years and lived in the South of France with her husband and two sons, Peter Anton and Maximilian.
Georg Hallensleben has collaborated on several books with Kate Banks, including The Cat Who Walked Across France, Baboon, Close Your Eyes and The Night Worker, winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Hallensleben
lives in Paris.
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