Construction!

A list of picture books featuring construction vehicles

Updated April 15, 2024
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Hooray for trucks!
Hughes, Susan
Paper Book
A joyful celebration of trucks and teamwork It's time for the hardworking trucks at the construction site to get cleaned up! But when the narrator tries to round up the muddy machines, they dig in their wheels and refuse to be led away. They don't want to waste time being soaked and...
Look, I'm an engineer
Paper Book
This playful preschool activity book for kids will unleash your child's curiosity and creativity as they play their way through 15 super fun STEM projects. Every project features bright photography and charming illustrations, which support the easy-to-follow instructions. Perfect...
The digger and the butterfly
Kuefler, Joseph
Ebook
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back in Napa Valley with this hilarious rom-com about a down-on-her-luck heiress who suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can't stand... only to discover there's a fine line between love and hate. After...
Build!
Red Nose Studio
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...
Carpenter's helper
Rosen, Sybil
Paper Book
A warm, wonderful picture book that gently reminds us of the importance of respecting our natural world and highlights the joys and rewards of helping others. Join a girl as she helps a mama and papa bird build a nest in her bathroom, hatch their eggs, and teach their babies to...
Whose big rig?
Buzzeo, Toni
Paper Book
Learn about six different construction vehicles in this guessing-game board book This nonfiction follow-up to Whose Truck? features six kinds of specialized rigs used to construct a light-rail system-a tunnel borer, an excavator, a bulldozer, a tie dragon, a tamping...
Diggersaurs explore!
Whaite, Michael
Paper Book
Bigger than a digger...hungrier than a dinosaur...and ready to explore...it's a DIGGERSAUR TREASURE HUNT! This rhyming mash-up of dinosaurs and trucks has surprises in store for young readers everywhere. When building work is done, it's time for fun! A dozen DIGGERSAURS crunch...
Smashy town
Zimmerman, Andrea Griffing
Paper Book
Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and I Stink! will love this rhythmic and lively picture book from the popular creators of Trashy Town. With a turn of his crane and a swing of his wrecking ball, Mr. Gilly knocks down the old buildings. He smashes through brick...
Shape up, construction trucks!
Allenby, Victoria
Paper Book
Dump Truck, Dump Truck Coming through! I spy a triangle--how about you? It's no secret that toddlers of any gender love big vehicles. Shape Up, Construction Trucks! uses rhyming verse and bright photographs to celebrate this enthusiasm in a...
Construction people
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Paper Book
Fourteen poems compiled by award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins introduce readers to the various construction people who collaborate to create a high-rise hotel building, from architect to crane operator to glaziers and more. How does an empty lot transform into...
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...
Crane & crane
Singleton, Linda Joy
Paper Book
"Charming and original."--Kirkus Reviews   A sandhill crane lifts a stick. A construction crane lifts a log. The two cranes grab, stretch, and stack, working through bad weather and difficult obstacles toward their end goal: building a home for a new...
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...
Dig, dump, roll
Sutton, Sally
Paper Book
Wham-a-hammer, bam-a-slamma! The construction crew is back -- but what are they building this time? Crash-a-rumble! Smash-a-grumble! What's at work? Here's a clue: It will clear the ground for you. Bulldozer! Coming through!
Bigger! Bigger!
Patricelli, Leslie
Paper Book
The star of Faster! Faster! and Higher! Higher! dons a construction hat for another soaring (and slightly interrupted) exercise in imagination. A box of blocks. A budding builder. Should she build a doghouse? A bridge? A skyscraper? Yes, all of these and more!...
Little Excavator
Dewdney, Anna
Paper Book
From New York Timesbestselling author-illustrator of the Llama Llama books comes a new character ready to dig his way into your heart! Here come the BIG RIGS rolling down the street. Thumpa-thumpa bumpa-bumpa BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! ...
Dalmatian in a digger
Elliott, Rebecca
Paper Book
Dugger! Dugger! Dugger! What's that noise? Little Dalmatian is about to find out as he follows the booming noises of big construction vehicles in this energetic picture book.
Ready, set, build!
Fleming, Meg
Paper Book
Grab your hard hat and get ready for a day of construction fun with a busy builder and his friend! Grab your hard hat, tie your boots. Pack your lunch. Ready? Scoot! Sketch a dream. Post a chart. Hatch the plan before...
Billions of bricks
Cyrus, Kurt
Paper Book
Two, four, six. Look at all the bricks! Grab a hard hat and all your tools, and get ready for a construction adventure in counting! This clever, rhyming picture book leads readers through a day in the life of a construction crew building with bricks. A brick may seem like just...
The mixed-up truck
Savage, Stephen
Paper Book
It's Cement Mixer's first day on the job and he doesn't want to make any mistakes. How can he help the other trucks on the construction site? By mixing some powdery white cement, of course! He mixes it up, adds a little water, and presto . . . a cake?! He must have mixed flour...
Tinyville town gets to work!
Biggs, Brian
Paper Book
The Tinyville Town series, new from New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Brian Biggs, launches with three books: Tinyville Town Gets to Work!, a world-establishing picture book that introduces the town and its many residents, and two board books, I'm a Veterinarian and I'm a...
Bulldozer's big day
Fleming, Candace.
CD
Big trucks and a birthday surprise make this construction site treat an irresistible read-aloud, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist! It's Bulldozer's big day--his birthday! But around the construction site, it seems like everyone is too busy to remember. Bulldozer wheels around...
Stanley the builder
Bee, William
Paper Book
It's another busy day for Stanley and friends on the construction site! When Myrtle buys a plot of land, she asks her friend Stanley to build her a new house. He works step by step--from clearing the site with his orange bulldozer, to lifting beams with his green crane....
Digger and Tom!
Braun, Sebastien.
Paper Book
Sebastien Braun follows up Toot and Pop! with Digger and Tom!, another brightly colored picture book featuring vehicles preschool kids love.   Digger and Tom! is set at a construction site. Little Digger is eager to help with the work, but all the other construction...
Building our house
Bean, Jonathan
Paper Book
Perfect for the little builders in your life, this warm-hearted and unique picture book is all about "building a house and turning it into a home" (Publishers Weekly), inspired by award-winning author-illustrator Jonathan Bean's own childhood. In this can't-miss book...
Diggers go
Light, Steve.
Paper Book
The excavator goes, "chumma chumma hufft hufft FALUMP." The steamroller goes, "CHUG chug CHUG chug moooooosh." The wrecking ball goes, "BOOOOOM!" Come on down to the construction site and make some noise with eight exciting construction vehicles as they rumble, crunch, chug, and boom their way...

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