Construction!

A list of picture books featuring construction vehicles

Updated April 15, 2024
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Cranky
Tran, Phuc
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Food Group series, Pete Oswald, and debut picture book author Phuc Tran, this is a hilarious picture book about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships! It's the last day at the...
Look I'm an engineer
Beets, Sally
Paper Book
This playful preschool activity book will unleash your child's curiosity and creativity as they play their way through amazing STEM projects. Perfect for kids ages 3-6, this early learning children's book will excite little ones by revealing the everyday ways they can be an engineer....
How it Works: Digger
Littleboy, Molly.
Paper Book
Diggers are amazing machines! This chunky board book has been especially designed for little hands, with interactive, peep-through pages to grasp and explore. Curious learners will love journeying to the building site, watching a digger in action and learning how a house is built....
Wake up, trucks!
Parachini, Jodie
Paper Book
A fun rhyming story by Jodie Parachini with bold and unique illustrations from Teresa Bellón, exploring the daily life of trucks.   Wake up, trucks! Let's rise and shine. Honk your horns - it's trucking time!   Follow the trusty...
Construction site
Mitton, Tony
Paper Book
Amazing Machines In Busy Places: Construction Site follows Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse as they explore all the vehicles and machinery on a busy construction site! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love including dumper trucks, towering cranes, diggers,...
Dinos love diggers
Redwing, Pterry
Paper Book
Toddlers love diggers and other big construction machines -- and so do Dinosaurs! See silly dinos at work with backhoes, dump trucks, bulldozers, and more! Super chunky lift-a-flaps surprise and delight curious babies and preschoolers. Flaps are sturdy for lots of discovery and tough enough for...
The digger and the butterfly
Kuefler, Joseph
Paper Book
From Joseph Kuefler, the acclaimed author-illustrator of The Digger and the Flower, comes a new book in his popular Digger picture book series, about a crew of building trucks who befriend a caterpillar and witness its metamorphosis into a beautiful butterfly. Perfect for readers who love the...
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...
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...
Building a home
Faber, Polly
Paper Book
This beautifully illustrated picture book shows how an old factory can become a brand-new apartment, step-by-step. Find out all about the people, machines, processes, and tools involved in breathing new life into an old building. With builders, cranes, diggers, cement mixers, and a host of other...
Diggers
Johnson, Amy (Writer of children's books)
Paper Book
Diggersaurs explore
Whaite, Michael
Paper Book
What do you get when you cross a digger and a dinosaur? A DIGGERSAUR (of course!) These mighty beasts are the perfect mixture of two childhood favourite things, and they're off on a wonderful rhythmic, rhyming adventure full of funny details to spot and noisy diggersaur...
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 unique take on conceptual shape...
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
Construction site
McDonald, Jill
Paper Book
Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site will love this vehicle-filled adventure in the hit Hello, World! board book series. Toddlers can learn all about the busy world of a construction site,...
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!
Construction workers
Arnold, Quinn M.
Paper Book
A kindergarten-level introduction to construction workers, covering their job description, the places where they work, and how they help the community by using their building skills.
Bigger! Bigger!
Patricelli, Leslie
Paper Book
Up and up and up! The star of Faster! Faster! and Higher! Higher! dons a construction hat for another soaring story about imagination.A box full of blocks. A budding builder. What should she build? A dog kennel? A bridge? A skyscraper? Bigger, bigger! BIGGEST! But then... Boom! Boom! What's that? Uh...
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 to build the perfect playhouse with a busy pup 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 you start.Get ready for a day full of construction fun! Children can follow a busy dog...
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...
On the construction site
Brown, Carron
Paper Book
Watch a skyscraper spring up with this beautifully illustrated interactive book! By simply holding the book up to the light, or shining a light behind each page, young readers will be able to discover how large buildings are constructed, who builds them, and all about the amazing...
Bulldozer's big day
Fleming, Candace.
Paper Book
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
What a job for Stanley - he's building a house for his friend, Myrtle. He will need his digger and his bulldozer and his cement mixer! He will also need his friend, Charlie to help. But will they manage to build the whole house? Join Stanley and friends for a hard-working adventure in...
Digger and Skip!
Braun, Sebastien.
Paper Book
A lively and engaging story jam-packed with vehicles. Perfect for transport-crazy pre-school boys! Little Digger tries hard to help out at the building site but it's not easy when the other machines keep taking over his work. Bang! Clank! Clank! Brrrm! ...
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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