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For the 4-Wheelin' (best of cars-trucks-trains)
By an Amazon.com customer
Freight Train Board Book (Caldecott Collection)Freight Train Board Book (Caldecott Collection) by Donald Crews
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01
The master of travel lit for kids. There is no better book for proving simplicity done right is genius.
Truck Board Book (Caldecott Collection)Truck Board Book (Caldecott Collection) by Donald Crews
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01
This TruckThis Truck by Paul Collicutt
Buy used from: $3.83
We love Collicutt for his realism, his historical perspective and his originality. Not every truck book has the guts to include the landmover used in transporting space shuttles.
This TrainThis Train by Paul Collicutt
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.92
This CarThis Car by Paul Collicutt
Buy used from: $0.52
Machines at Work Board BookMachines at Work Board Book by Byron Barton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01
simple. bold colors. highly readable. surprisingly absorbing
Trucks Board BookTrucks Board Book by Byron Barton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01
The Mighty Street SweeperThe Mighty Street Sweeper by Patrick Moore
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.11
funny and cleanly.
I Love Trucks!I Love Trucks! by Philemon Sturges
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.00
The best cherry picker in kid lit? Perhaps
Digger ManDigger Man by Andrea Zimmerman
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $2.92
Two brothers, not enough trucks. I overidentify with this book. Though it's really about the older kid getting himself his own digger. Dream on, big brothers all over the world, dream on
I Stink!I Stink! by Kate Mcmullan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.87
rhythm, stinky trash talk, I love this book for simple change of pace it offers: a mean voiced, disgusting garbage truck rapping about its load. Consider it a counterweight to The Little Engine that Could.
My Big Truck Book (My Big Board Books)My Big Truck Book (My Big Board Books) by Roger Priddy
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01
Impress the kids the next time you detour past a construction site with your vast knowledge of skid steers, excavators and more.
My Big Train Book (My Big Board Books)My Big Train Book (My Big Board Books) by Roger Priddy
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.60
Want your kid to be able to identify a German commuter train, as opposed to the also-red but with fewer windows Swiss freighter? This is the book for you
The Little Engine That Could (Original Classic Edition)The Little Engine That Could (Original Classic Edition) by Watty Piper
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01
Remember when Jack knives were appropriate toys? This book does. What's also nice about this is its blatant sexism. All the engines not interested in helping the children are male. The original engine and the little engine are female. The wider implications are something I can ponder while enduring 500+ readings.
Chugga-Chugga Choo-ChooChugga-Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.32
mesmerizing for the 6 month-3 yo set. The landscapes made out of toys are absorbing, though this book also introduces the concept of an echo, a hard thing to explain at bedtime. Let me know if you come up with an easy definitions...