Construction!

A list of picture books featuring construction vehicles

Updated June 20, 2025
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Fix that clock!
Cyrus, Kurt
Paper Book
2019 Kirkus Best Picture Book of the Year A construction crew rebuilds a rickety old clock tower that has become home to wild animals in this picture book for fans of Sheep in a Jeep and Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. An underlying...
Snakes on the job
Dennis, Kathryn
Paper Book
Full of sibilant sounds and other wordplay, Kathryn Dennis's picture book, Snakes on the Job, is a sssssweet story that's sure to be a read-aloud hit. Off to work the snakes will go. They slide into trucks and roll out slow. Hisssssssh...
Bulldozer's big day
Fleming, Candace.
Paper Book
Big trucks and a birthday surprise make this construction site treat an irresistible read-aloud written by award-winning author Candace Fleming and illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Eric Rohmann! It's Bulldozer's big day--his birthday! But around the construction site, it seems...
Wake up, trucks!
Parachini, Jodie
Paper Book
This bright, bold, energetic book follows a group of trucks as they begin their day and carry out their specific jobs. Perfect for young fans of construction vehicles! Young readers can follow along as an excited group of trucks, diggers, dozers, and more wake up and have...
Build!
Paper Book
For all young truck lovers and fans of books like Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site! Watch a series of amazing construction vehicles-a dump truck, a bulldozer, and many others-build a building unlike any other. Then delight in the surprise ending, where young readers and listeners...
Someone builds the dream
Wheeler, Lisa
Paper Book
Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound picture book reveals from acclaimed author of The Christmas Boot Lisa Wheeler andNew York Times bestselling illustrator of LoveLoren Long<...
Crane Jane!
Zimmerman, Andrea Griffing
Paper Book
Clang-clang! Clunk! Crunch! A story about a working woman and the big machines kids love! From the best-selling author and illustrator team of Trashy Town. Hook it, lift it, off the ground Easy, careful, swing it 'round. Clunk! ...

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