Judy Ann Sadler

""This book looks boring, doesn't it?" says someone from somewhere in the dark. Lighting a lantern and exploring the next few pages, our guide seems to confirm his assumption--not another soul, or anything, to be seen! But wait! Peeking around the corner of the page, our guide spies something: a striped ball. And a brand-new shoe ... Hmm, how odd. As our guide walks on, he discovers other abandoned random things: a bright red nose, a tiny car, a giant...

A young boy is highly skeptical when his grandmother tells him that the machines at the nearby construction can dance, and he wants to see this for himself. But there are setbacks. and the child has to be patient and fill the time in other ways--ploughing through books, digging through the toy box, building and bulldozing. When Grandma decides to bake, the child eagerly joins in, because Baking is almost as good as watching diggers.