Building and Construction Picture Books

The vehicles find their own special way to celebrate their mothers.

When Digger discovers a flower growing in the center of the town being built, his entire perspective changes.

"When an airport needs an expansion, the Construction Site crew is on the job! With help from fun new vehicles from the airport, they'll build new roads and runways, prep planes for their trips, and clean up after a surprise snowstorm. The airport is a busy place--Belt Loader, Tractor, Snowplow, and many other vehicles pull the planes, pump the fuel, move the luggage, maintain the runways, and much more. Working together, the team will get all the...

Publisher Annotation: A brilliant, inclusive ode to self-expression, girl power, and the many things readers can create. Have you ever dreamed of building something? Maybe something little like a birdhouse? Or something big like a skyscraper? If you can envision it, you can build it!

Five beautifully illustrated spreads show a series of vehicles you might see on a construction site, including a bulldozer, a mixer, a dump truck, and a digger, all hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a mirror on the final page, this is the perfect book to share with very little ones.

Follows, in simple text and illustrations, the building of a skyscraper step by step.

When a child's toys break, the child helps parents to fix the toys and make a brand-new toybox to hold them. Cuando los juguetes de un niño se rompen, el niño ayuda a los padres para arreglar los juguetes y hacer una caja de juguetes a estrenar para sostenerlos.

Told in rhyming text, six farm vehicles work through all the seasons, from spring planting to building a barn to protect the animals in winter.

"From a lowly mixture of stone, sand, water, and cement have sprung sidewalks, streets, and skyscrapers, . . . lighthouses and . . . palaces, long bridges and massive dams. In ancient building practices, in modern engineering, and in the architecture of the future, humble concrete plays a mighty role in the creation of the human-made world. With facts and . . . running narrative in the form of repartee-filled speech bubbles, [this book] is . . . informative...

"Bulldozers, dump trucks, and cranes are just a few of the vehicles working together in these pages to build something incredible. The payloader makes the hole for the foundation ("DIG"), the semi-loader brings in the huge blocks ("HAUL"), and the crane lifts them up ("HOIST"). But is this a real construction site, or a boy's backyard? And after the structure is done, what happens next? Yes, the inevitable: he makes it all tumble down and is ready...