Hard Hat Area: Builders at Work

By Susan L. Roth

A unique day-in-the-life look at a real girl named Kristen who works as an ironworkers apprentice on some of New York City's tallest buildings. Following Kristen around the construction site, readers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582349460
• ISBN13: 9781582349466
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Very artistic and educational!

Very cute book for kids of all ages. Illustrations are very original, and you can expand your child's knowledge with the definitions given on each page, for example "a connector is the person who..." It is not sexist at all. It just happens to be a woman as the apprentice, which I think serves as a great role model. In the back of the book, there is an "Author's Note" which says ALL apprentice ironworkers deliver food and equipment to the others. This review comes from a proud Union Ironworker Family!

Hard Hat Area

Thank you. It was just what I wanted. The condition is great and my grandchild will enjoy it very much I'm sure!

Great for your little construction enthusiast

My son loves this book-- it takes you all around a big building site with Kristin the iron worker apprentice. It has a nice rhythm, and lots of great but simple vocabulary-- like choker cables and spud wrenches. This book is also written on two levels-- you can read the narrative, which is brief and sweet, or you can stop on each page and read the notes. The notes describe what exactly the "plumber upper" and the "deckers" are doing, and which tools they use. AND- it was written by a woman no less.