Lots of kids have a fascination with construction vehicles, so we love finding new books that bring these machines to life for little readers. This list of new vehicle books for kids features board books and picture books that kids will love!

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What’s Up, Construction Truck?

Written by Matthew Reinhardt and illustrated by Toby Leigh

This adorable interactive lift-the-flap book introduces little readers to construction vehicles and the work that they do. The book uses simple language and large, colorful illustrations with flaps hidden throughout the image. When you are done reading it, the book can be folded into a 3-D bulldozer, with the illustrations becoming part of the structure!

Little Pups in Big Trucks

Written by Bob Shea and illustrated by Brian Won

This sweet board book follows a group of puppies attending their first day of puppy school. Each puppy drives a different construction vehicle in a different color. The playful text includes lots of sounds that kids will love repeating and colorful fonts that highlight the different colored trucks. The story also includes an important lesson about working together, as the puppies try to save their teacher from a pile of rubble.

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This Pup is Stuck!

Written by Bob Shea and illustrated by Brian Won

This cute board book follows the same puppies from Little Pups in Big Trucks as they learn an important lesson about listening and problem solving. When one of the pups gets a little too excited about digging, the other pups have to work together to save him. Kids will love watching the little puppies work together, and the sweet illustrations full of adorable puppies and bright colors.

Big Green Garage

Written by Jen Arena and illustrated by Mike Dutton

In this interactive book, young readers have an opportunity to explore a garage and see how the people working there fix cars. The simple rhyming text explores the tools mechanics use, and the steps they take to problem solve a broken vehicle. The illustrations are really cute, with interactive elements on each page. Kids will love lifting the cars onto the tow truck, turning a wrench, pumping an air pump, and racing a car around a track with the interactive elements.

Construction Site: You’re Just Right!

Written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by AG Ford

This adorable Valentine’s addition to the Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site series follows the beloved trucks as they celebrate Valentine’s Day. As each truck completes their job, they come across a Valentine just for them. The rhyming text is peppy and fun to read aloud, and the colorful illustrations include flaps that kids can lift to see the Valentine surprise hidden underneath.

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Construction Site Gets a Fright!

Written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by AG Ford

This Halloween themed board book follows the beloved vehicles from Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site as they uncover spooky things on the construction site. The rhyming text explores the mysterious things that the trucks stumble upon on a windy Halloween night and how they use their tools to uncover what is really going on. Kids will love the adorable costumes on the trucks, and how the spooky sights turn out to not be so scary after all.

Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through!

Written by Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrated by AG Ford

Join the beloved construction team from Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site as they take on the task of building a highway! The original team of trucks joins up with new vehicles as they rip, roll, pour, and smooth together. The rhyming text and cute illustrations carry the same sweet tone as the earlier books in the series, with the addition of new trucks performing new tasks. Kids will love making the various truck noises as they watch the project progress.

Hush, Little Trucker

Written by Kim Norman and illustrated by Toshiba Nakamura

This sweet bedtime book puts a truck inspired spin on the classic lullaby “Hush Little Baby”. The story follows a mother and her child as they attempt to find the child’s lost toy truck. They imagine themselves using truck after truck to find the toy, eventually wrapping the song up with a sweet ending. The rhyming text has a nice rhythm for lulling little ones to sleep, and the pictures show the mother-son pair driving all kinds of big trucks in a snowy scene.

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Do You Know? Vehicles and Transportation

Written by Camille Babeau

This informational guide to all things transportation is stuffed full of information for young truck enthusiasts. The book starts with a table of contents, exploring all of the vehicles outlined in the book, separated into categories: On Land, On the Water, and In the Air. There is also a section called More to Know exploring inventions from the past and for the future. Each two page spread focuses on a different type of vehicle, from animals to snow travel to submarines. Each category is explored through labeled illustrations, while the sidebars contain more information and facts. Kids will love exploring all of the types of transportation depicted so clearly in this guide!

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