"Come on down to the construction site! Meet the mega machines that will help workers build a brand-new school"--Back cover.

Presents brief facts and color photographs of fantastic machines, including excavators, watercraft, trains, and airships.

"Simple text and supportive images introduce young readers to earth movers. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

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

Digger and his friends meet a hungry caterpillar who chooses Digger as its safe place to make a cocoon, making Digger cease his work to care for the small creature who surprises him and his friends.

The longest ship ever built, the heaviest digger and the largest aeroplane, the world's first working motorcar, and its most expensive one. What machines like these have in common is that they all say a lot about the inventiveness and imagination of the people who conceived and created them.

"Bulldozers, dump trucks, and cranes are just a few of the vehicles working together in these pages to build something incredible. The payloader makes the hole for the foundation ("dig"), the semi-loader brings in the huge blocks ("haul"), and the crane lifts them up ("hoist"). But is this a real construction site, or a boy's backyard? And after the structure is done, what happens next? Yes, the inevitable: he makes it all tumble down and is ready...