Sam and the Construction Site
by Tjibbe Veldkamp & Alice Hoogstad
Lemniscaat, 2015
Originally published in the Netherlands
An extra-large book featuring extra-large construction equipment, this astonishing story features Sam who loves watching workers at the construction site. Through a dare by bigger boys, Sam enters the site and runs to the steam roller like he’s on a mission. He crushes a car. Then he runs for the cement truck and pours cement; then he lifts a police car into the air. Has he gone mad? Not exactly, he’s stopping a crime in progress! An astute reader may see clues in the illustrations, or it may come as a total surprise at the end when Sam saves the day with his apparent ‘path of destruction.’