Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?: Read & Listen Edition
Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?: Read & Listen Edition

Author: Brianna Caplan Sayres

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 0399551158

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The bedtime rituals of little diggers and dump trucks at a construction site should be quite familar to kids saying goodnight. Young readers will identify with fire engines, tractors and monster trucks as the vehicles ask for one more story while their mommy trucks tuck them in, and their daddy trucks sing a goodnight song. Children who can't get enough of trucks will love Brianna Caplan Sayres things-that-go bedtime story.

Diggers, Hatters & Whores
Diggers, Hatters & Whores

Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2014-02-28

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1869797043

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The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries. A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and lively style. The scope is the social history of the goldfields of colonial New Zealand, from the 1850s to the 1870s. The book opens with a survey of worldwide rushes in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, when for the first time in history a great wheeling movement of gold diggers began to revolve from continent to continent. The main body of the book looks at all the rushes, large and small, that took place in the colony: Coromandel, Golden Bay, Otago, Marlborough, the West Coast and Thames. The early chapters of the main body survey rushes chronologically; the later chapters look at rushes thematically. 'I owe a debt of gratitude to . . . Stevan Eldred-Grigg's history of the New Zealand gold rushes Diggers, hatters & whores.' Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

Digger, Dozer, Dumper
Digger, Dozer, Dumper

Author: Hope Vestergaard

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1536205354

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“Rising above the usual singsong name-checking, Vestergaard celebrates not only the jobs these machines perform but also their marvelous mechanics.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow — invite young children to meet their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away. Engaging visual details like an anxious turtle crossing the street just ahead of a steamroller are sure to keep preschoolers poring over the pages as they consider the question, “Trucks as far as eyes can see. . . . Which truck would you like to be?”

Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

Author: Tomasz Rakowski

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1785332414

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The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment. Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after this degradation, tracking the experiences of unemployed miners, scrap collectors, and poverty-stricken village residents. Contrary to the images of passivity, resignation, and helplessness that have become powerful tropes in Polish journalism and academic writing, Tomasz Rakowski traces the ways in which people actively reconfigure their lives. As it turns out, the initial sense of degradation and helplessness often gives way to images of resourcefulness that reveal unusual hunting-and-gathering skills.

Dazzling Diggers
Dazzling Diggers

Author: Tony Mitton

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 9781447212652

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Get the scoop on diggers in this picture book with playful art, animal drivers and a brilliant picture dictionary. It's the perfect way to learn about diggers - at bedtime, on car journeys, or anytime at all!