There's construction nearby.

"Next to a construction site" is an incredibly rich wimmelbook with many stories and details. On each spread, the focus is on a construction site where work is bustling: trucks and dump trucks deliver building materials, excavators dig foundations, cranes effortlessly lift and move multi-ton slabs, graders level, and asphalt pavers lay roads. People operate all this miraculous construction machinery. Everything on a construction site must run like clockwork, but is everyone here busy working?

The book tells about one day in the lives of those without whom no construction project can do without: an architect, a geodetic engineer, a foreman, a бригадир, a dump truck driver, and several construction laborers. They are all depicted on every spread of the book, and you need to find them all.

Builder Vasya loves to sing and sings non-stop, so loudly that he out-sings the working machines. Fedya is constantly unlucky, and Nikolay doesn't mind chatting instead of working. The foreman oversees everything on the construction site; he cannot leave for a minute, but is he always in his place? The Veselkins family – mom, dad, son, and daughter – love to travel by car. Wherever they go, they always encounter some construction site.

In the city and outside the city, something is constantly being built, landscaped, improved. It's good when a new house grows in place of an old dilapidated one, but sometimes road repairs or highway construction disrupt their plans. Max is not a builder but a photographer, yet he is a frequent visitor to the construction site: subscribers of the newspaper where he works want to know what is happening in the city and its surroundings.

An attentive reader will find dozens of funny and kind stories in this book! By looking at wimmelbooks, that is, books without words, children develop observation skills, learn to see and notice details, trace logical connections between events, and independently compose a story from pictures. A wimmelbook is a book for all ages. The youngest children enjoy looking at bright large objects, older children enthusiastically complete tasks to find characters on each spread, and the most advanced readers (including adults) notice the smallest details and find "artist's jokes," without which no wimmelbook is complete.