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...
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...
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!
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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...
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, 1989-
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...
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...
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...
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! ...
Billions of bricks.
Cyrus, Kurt
Paper Book
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.
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
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....
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. [online electronic book]
Light, Steve
Ebook
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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