I'm Dirty!

Author	Andrea Zimmerman
ISBN	0805082034

A picture book for the very young that celebrates a child's excitement for construction vehicles

"Honk the horn!
Flash the lights!
Scoop the rocks!
Push the mud!"

A little boy imagines driving a great big digger-scooping and pushing mud to make a playground for his baby...

Author

Byron Barton

Toddlers are continuously fascinated by the automobile. From the sound of the engine to the proper care and keep of a car. This spectacular machine loses its mystique as we grow older, but Byron Barton's vibrant picture book just may rekindle your -- and your child's -- love of the auto.

Using...

Author	John Segal
ISBN	0689877021

Incredibly cute! It's Spring, Rabbit's favourite season and he's very excited because it's time to plant his favourite vegetables. Carrots! Soon he'll be able to enjoy his favourite meal of carrot soup.

Rabbit plows and plants and waits and waits and waits until finally it's time to pick the...

Author	William Low
ISBN	0805090509

Toddlers love machines and things that go, and this book gives them everything they want, from a bucket truck to a tower crane to an airplane. Every other spread has an interactive gatefold which extends the original picture to three pages, revealing something new about each situation.

The...

Author	Cynthia Rylant
ISBN	0590100416

The Great Gracie Chase is another one of Cynthia Rylant's best written. It tells the story of a little dog named Gracie who lives a pleasant life and loves the peace and quiet of her home. One day, that all changes when painters come to redo her owners house and they are so noisy. Not only does this upset Gracie...

Author	Margaret Mayo
ISBN	0805068406

Busy machines for busy kids!

"Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging,
scooping up the earth and lifting and tipping.
They make huge holes with their dig, dig, digging.
They can work all day."

Trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters-they all like to work hard....

Author	Jeremy Tankard
ISBN	0545065704

Bird and Raccoon are playing ball, when Bird gets bonked on the head. "Boo hoo hoo!" he cries. What will make Bird feel better? A kiss? A cookie? A Band-Aid? Bird's friends Raccoon, Rabbit, Beaver, Sheep, and Fox are full of sweet and funny ideas.

Perfectly pitched and hilariously imagined,...

Author	Sally Sutton
ISBN	0763658308

What's even more exciting to preschoolers than seeing big machines that build things? Watching
the massive ones that tear them down!

Crush the stone. Crush the stone.
Chip and grind and munch.
Make new concrete from the old.
Whirr! Churr! Crunch!

From the huge crane...

Author

Helen Ketteman

A delightfull retelling of the three little pigs story. Three little gators strike out on their own in an east Texas swamp. Their mother warns them to build strong houses that can protect them from Big-bottomed Boar, who likes to eat tasty, tender gators for his snack. Soon, First Gator builds himself...

Author	Emma Garcia
ISBN	1905417586

A parade of colorful construction vehicles doing their work means plenty of joyful noise! From the crane that lifts, lifts, lifts to the bulldozer that push-push-pushes, to the steamroller that rolls, rolls, rolls, every machine here makes it own special sound. Kids will love the irresistibly rhythmic...

Author

Kevin Lewis

Children's scifi-horror story set in an alternate universe where dogs are sharply divided into two massively unequal classes. The ruling class has presumably taken advantage of a hole into our dimension in order to import technology. The tech pervades the lives of these dogs, even though very few...

Author	Deb Lund
ISBN	0152052372

They stoke the boiler, stow the luggage, and when hills are steep, they even get out and push. That's right, the thrill-seeking daredevil dinosaurs from Dinosailors are back, and now they're riding a train. But this train is more like a roller coaster--up, down, and faster and faster, until the dinos...

Author	Jarrett J. Krosoczka
ISBN	0670035998

"BATH TIME!" calls out the pirate mommy. "ARGHHH!" answer her little pirates. It's time to walk the plank for these two pirate pretenders. To the refrain of "Yo ho, yo ho, it's off to the bath we go!" the pirates and their mommy make their way to a bath full of ships and suds and even a pirate rubber ducky. After...

Author	Chris Gall
ISBN	0316027774

The original, rip-roaring mash-up of dinosaurs and trucks that inspired the Netflix TV series!

Millions of years ago, DINOTRUX ruled the earth! These mighty part-truck, part-dino demolition dynamos rumbled, plowed and bulldozed their way through the centuries. In this toddler-friendly...

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...

Author	Keith Baker
ISBN	0152062300

This fresh adaptation of the classic "One Potato, Two Potato" nursery rhyme is a counting adventure and rollicking good time rolled into one. Spunky leader Potato Joe and his nine spuds pals count up to ten and back down again, all while playing games and meeting up with other garden friends.

With...

Author	Charise Mericle Harper
ISBN	0375869247

One day Little Green rolls into town and says his first word: "Go!" The town is building a bridge, and now everyone has a job to do, from dump truck to forklift. Little Green helps them do their jobs with gusto. Until . . . there is a little too much gusto. They can go, go, go . . . but how will they stop?

This...

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...

Author

Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges

This seems awfully familiar. It's Machines at Work with kitties! Definitely some kid appeal here.I mostly had issues with the text. a picture of a backhoe putting dirt in a dump truck goes with the text: Into the dump truck/onto the backhoe./Move that dirt!
The dirt has to go in the backhoe first so...

Author	Dick Gackenbach
ISBN	0899192238

I was so excited to find this at a library sale, some 20-ish years after the last time I read it.
This book fascinated me as a child! As the kid who always would pour over the illustrations long after the words on the page had been read, I was intrigued and engrossed by the Terrible Whatzit and every detail...

Author	Donald Crews
ISBN	0688122671

If you've read any of Donald Crews's picture books about vehicles, you know the format. Using as few words as possible, he shows what a particular kind of vehicle does on a typical day, from the moment its motor starts until after it's shut down for the day. In this book, the classic yellow school bus gets...

Author	Penny Dale
ISBN	0763658715

A delightful book that any dinosaur lover and non-lover alike can get into. My 5 yr old loves dinosaurs and loved this book because of it. my 3 yr old twins could care less about dinosaurs, but loved the story line and bright colorful pictures, and I, who could also care less for the big creatures, loved that...

Author	Joan Holub
ISBN	0545609682

A new constructacular picture book from the New York Times bestselling creator of Pete the Cat, James Dean and bestselling author, Joan Holub.

Mighty dads, strong and tall,
help their children, young and small.

They keep them safe and bolted tight
and show them how to build...