Construction

10 best books like Construction (Sally Sutton): A Stone Sat Still, The Watermelon Seed, Bats at the Library, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes, Tap the Magic Tree, Twenty Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street, Red Truck, Hooray For Fish!, Not Norman: A Goldfish Story

A Stone Sat Still

Author	Brendan Wenzel
ISBN	1452173184

I simply loved this book because it has the potential for different perspectives of how and when we read it. It will be different for the children. They will enjoy the illustrations and the various animals and flora depicted in relation to the stone. And as for adults, I feel this book describes a home to...

The Watermelon Seed

Author	Greg Pizzoli
ISBN	1423171012

With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.
With...

Bats at the Library

Author

Brian Lies

Another inky evening’s here— The air is cool and calm and clear.
Can it be true? Oh, can it be?
Yes!—Bat Night at the library!

Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled...

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

Author	Sherri Duskey Rinker
ISBN	0811877825

The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book

As the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworking trucks get ready to say goodnight. One by one, Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, Dump Truck, Bulldozer, and Excavator finish their work and lie down to rest—so they'll be ready...

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes

Author	Eric Litwin
ISBN	0061910244

Time to head back to school with this bestselling groovy Pete the Cat book!

Pete the Cat is rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunch room, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing...

Tap the Magic Tree

Author	Christie Matheson
ISBN	0062274457

The acclaimed interactive picture book about the changing seasons. “Like Hervé Tullet’s Press Here, Matheson’s Tap the Magic Tree proves you don’t need apps for interactivity,” praised the New York Times.

Every book needs you to turn the pages. But not every book needs you to...

Twenty Big Trucks in the Middle of the Street

Author

Mark Lee

Count the trucks getting stuck in a traffic jam in this rhythmic read-aloud sure to draw in kids who love everything on wheels.

One ice-cream truck selling everything sweetBreaks down and blocks the middle of our street.
If you’re a little boy on a bike, an ice-cream truck on your street...

Red Truck

Author	Kersten Hamilton
ISBN	0670062758

Can Red Truck make it
up the hill?
Red Truck can!
Red Truck will!ZOOOM!

 

 

Truck fans of all ages but especially the littlest ones will love cheering on the hardworking red tow truck that stars in this high energy picture book. Mighty Red Truck splashes and zooms...

Hooray For Fish!

Author	Lucy Cousins
ISBN	1844280225

Splosh, splash, splish, Hooray for fish! Swim with Little Fish and meet all his fishy friends in this splishy-sploshy riot of colour and rhyme under the sea. A piscatorial picture-book delight from award-winning artist Lucy Cousins. Fish-themed point-of-sale, including mobiles to create your...

Not Norman: A Goldfish Story

Author	Kelly Bennett
ISBN	0763627631

"A sweet story that could be used as a springboard to discussion of the pitfalls of making snap judgments about pets — or people." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Norman the goldfish isn’t what this little boy had in mind. He wanted a different kind of pet — one that could run and catch, or chase...

Digger, Dozer, Dumper

Author	Hope Vestergaard
ISBN	0763650781

Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different — and little readers are invited to find a vehicle that’s like them.

Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow...

Apples and Pumpkins

Author	Anne Rockwell
ISBN	0689718616

It is Fall! And for one little girl, that means the special joys of visiting the Comstock Farm: choosing the reddest apples from the trees and finding the best pumpkin in the patch. Back home, she helps her mother carve a funny jack-o'-lantern face and puts a glowing candle inside her prize new pumpkin...just...

The Very Impatient Caterpillar

Author	Ross Burach
ISBN	1338289411

HEY! What are you guys doing?

We're going to metamorphosize.

Meta-WHAT-now?

Transform into butterflies.

Right. Right. I knew that...

WAIT?! You're telling me I can become a BUTTERFLY?

Yes.

With wings?

Yes.

Wait...