{"id":20166,"date":"2013-09-04T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20166"},"modified":"2013-09-04T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:10:22","slug":"review-of-construction-kitties-by-judy-sue-goodwin-sturges-and-shari-halpern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20166","title":{"rendered":"Review of Construction Kitties, by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges and Shari Halpern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/construction_kitties.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/construction_kitties.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"construction_kitties\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/construction_kitties.jpg 160w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/construction_kitties-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><em>Construction Kitties<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges<br \/>\nillustrated by Shari Halpern<\/p>\n<p>Christy Ottaviano Books (Henry Holt), New York, 2013.  32 pages.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry, but this book is way too cute!  Though it\u2019s not saccharine.  It\u2019s an honest, worthy book about construction machines \u2013 with adorable kitties driving them.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got standard Construction Book pages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Into the loader.<br \/>\nOnto the excavator.<br \/>\nDig that dirt!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then at lunch time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Out with their pails.<br \/>\nTasty sardines.<br \/>\nCool milk.<br \/>\nTummies are full.<br \/>\nConstruction Kitties purr and rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what are those Construction Kitties building?  What could be better?  A playground!  The endpapers show the workers now playing with many smaller kittens on the newly constructed playground.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another one that\u2019s going straight into my next Baby Storytime.  Construction machines.  Kitties.  What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackids.com\">mackids.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/080509105X\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/construction_kitties.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/construction_kitties.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction Kitties by Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges illustrated by Shari Halpern Christy Ottaviano Books (Henry Holt), New York, 2013. 32 pages. Starred Review I\u2019m sorry, but this book is way too cute! Though it\u2019s not saccharine. It\u2019s an honest, worthy book about construction machines \u2013 with adorable kitties driving them. We\u2019ve got standard Construction Book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}