Atticus requested this no fewer than five times tonight. A young boy helps his dad, a construction worker, get his new school ready for opening day. The boy follows his dad from ground breaking until the first day of school in lovely, rhyming lines. The cool thing about Bill Thompson's illustrations is that a viewer feels like he is looking up at a scene, or down below depending on the picture. The perspectives are unique, and the pictures are so vivid they are almost like photographs. Atticus's favorite part, as could be guessed, is the machines at work: diggers, steam rollers, cement mixers, etc.
