Another relabling read. Loved the concept of this one and the detailed, vocab-rich text helped me get sucked in. ( )

Introduces a great variety of jobs carried out at night, the mystery time when kids are asleep and unaware that the world is still going on out there. Jobs include radio DJ, tugboat captain, security guard and bridge painter. Also a good addition to those classroom units on communities/neighborhoods. ( )

Night Shift tells a story about the various jobs that happen at night. It's an interesting book to read to children, but I found myself getting confused at the questions that led to the next page because my predictions were always wrong. An example would be when the author asked who bought a box of donuts for their nighttime voyage. I thought it would've been a police officer, but it was a fisherman. ( )

This book follows various people through their night shift jobs; street sweeper, window dressers, DJ, security guard, newspaper printers, bridge painters, zookeeper, freighter captain, truck driver, road worker, baker, fisherman, tugboat captain, and waitress at an all-night cafe.

Unfortunately, the segues between each profiled worker aren't always clear and the pictures are confusing and cluttered. In addition, the choices of workers are puzzling – two different ships, but no policemen, doctors, or factory workers. Bridge painters seem rather far-fetched to me (although that may be because I've never lived anywhere with large suspension bridges...) and several of the professions, truck driver and ship captains for example, also work during the day.

Verdict: Mildly interesting and well-meant, but doesn't quite meet expectations. An additional purchase.

ISBN: 1599900254; Published October 2007 by Bloomsbury; Borrowed from the library