Dig Dig Digging

"Dig, dig!" he says, in his little almost 2 year old voice, my son is letting me know he wants to read this book.  Every night before bed, in the afternoons before nap and even in the morning when he wakes up he wants me to read, "Dig, dig!"

This was book that actually made me commit to taking a stack of books home from the library that week. I went that day hoping to attend story time and found out after I got there, along with some other kids and their care givers, that they were on a break. Well, that didn't stop us. We decided to have our own story time and this book was an absolute hit.

On each page you find a new type of working vehicle from tractors, to bulldozers, to garbage trucks and even a helicopter that is rescuing a poor soul from the water. I reenact this scene by making the person say, "Help, Help!" as he is lifted through the sky to the helicopter, which my toddler has caught on and likes to repeat. The language is so creative and repetitively catchy! At the end of each page is the phrase, "they can work all day!" My son loves to repeat this line along with me. "All day!" he says.

My following trip to the library I was looking for a book on dinosaurs and to my delight I happened to find one by the same author and illustrator that has all the dinosaur names and how to pronounce them. You learn a lot as a parent! So, I am now officially a fan of Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe.

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