Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award winner and Children's Book-of-the-Month selection.

"Truck and machinery fans will dig this..." Kirkus Reviews

"The joyful illustrations, painted in satiny acrylics, and the sparse, confident text both ring true, and will delight other digger-wannabes." Booklist

“[A] lively, sure-to-please winner . . . Details are perfect, down to the brothers' special bond at the end of the day.” —School Library Journal

“The book's most distinctive note, however, lies in having the narrator employ his construction dream world as a means of connecting with his sibling, rather than escaping from him.” —Publishers Weekly