18 Engaging Children's Books About Construction Vehicles

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Have you got a little one that loves big trucks? If so, don’t miss this amazing collection of children’s books about construction vehicles!

My boys loved big trucks when they were younger. We spent many hours in the sandbox with Tonka trucks – digging, dumping, and just getting dirty!

Now, I have a grandson who’s a year old. We have started collecting trucks for him to play with this spring and summer.

I’ve also begun to keep my eye out for books about transportation and construction. I’m hoping he’ll love them as much as his daddy did.

Children’s Books About Construction Vehicles

Below, I’ve featured just a handful of books about construction vehicles that will help your young readers engage with the things they’re most passionate about.

You should be able to find them at your local library or book store. If you can’t find them locally, you can click each image cover to purchase them on Amazon.

Tip Tip Dig Dig – 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.

Three Grumpy Trucks – Whirr! Whomp! Grind! Chomp! Three toy trucks have big plans for their day at the playground: digging and lifting, building and shifting. But then they start to get tired…and hot…and hungry…. They’re GRUMPY! When they throw a total truck tantrum, will anyone be able to calm them down?

Diggers and Dumpers – Big building machines fill the pages of this delightful board book.

The Digger and the Flower – When Digger discovers something growing in the rubble, he sets in motion a series of events that will change him, and the city, forever.

The Little Blue Digger – Little Blue is not allowed to join in the daily construction work in Builders Town because the other trucks consider him too little to help. However, following a slight mishap at the construction site, Little Blue rushes in and proves that he can work just as well as any of the other vehicles, earning their respect and a permanent place on the construction team.

Noisy Noisy Digger – Young readers will learn colors and the names of a variety of construction machines in this exciting trip around the work site! Lift the flaps to hear the vehicle sounds, and find instructions for an interactive physical activity.

Little Excavator – There’s Loader and Dump Truck, Backhoe and Crane. They’re ready to transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park. And who wants to help most of all? Little Excavator! But are there any jobs for someone so small?

Backhoe Joe – When Nolan finds a stray backhoe in the street, he can’t wait to adopt it. But this backhoe is not very well behaved. As Nolan tries to train his new pet truck, he learns that maybe this backhoe already has a home…

Backhoes Dig! – What truck helps dig a big hole? A backhoe! With every scoop, backhoes help clear dirt and rocks out of the way.

The Truck Book – Climb behind the wheel of over 50 different types of trucks, from dump trucks and fire trucks to tanker trucks and ice cream trucks!

What Can a Crane Pick Up? – With a rhyme that begs to be read aloud again and again, and quirky, exuberant illustrations, this book is sure to delight kids and parents alike. But watch out: Cranes pick UP—that’s what they do! Look out, or a crane might pick up you!

The Construction Crew – The construction gang is tearing down an old building and laying the foundation for a new home. Workers use all kinds of trucks and tools to get the job done. And just in time for a family to move in.

Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night? – The bedtime rituals of these little diggers and dump trucks will be quite familiar to kids saying goodnight. Young readers will surely identify with little fire engines, tractors, and monster trucks as they ask for one more story while their mommy trucks tuck them in, and their daddy trucks sing a goodnight song.

Vroom, Vroom, Trucks! – Look for bulldozers, dump trucks, and more in this adventurous lift-the-flap book from Karen Katz sure to appeal to any preschooler who loves things that go and things that build.

Tractors, Diggers, & Dozers – The book is filled with colorful photographs that look amazingly good on all devices and are sure to please younger children and kids ages 6-8 and also boys and men.

Digger, Dozer, Dumper – Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems — each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow — invite young children to meet their favorite trucks face-to-face.

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

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site – 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 for another day of rough and tough construction play!