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The Tugboat and the Silver Moon

Kersten Hamilton - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A timeless picture book from the creator of the Red Truck and Friends series about a ship stuck in a canal and the moon that set it free.. The silver moon sails through the vast blue sky as a cargo ship down below is stuck in a canal. The tugboat tugs until the line goes taut. The diggers...
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Not Just the Driver!

Sara Holly Ackerman - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Come along for the ride and meet the teams behind the machines that get us to our destinations in this rhyming picture book celebrating transportation teamwork and featuring vibrant art by award-winning illustrator Robert Neubecker! . Who makes buses rev and go, through detours, gridlock,...
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Construction Site: Taking Flight! (Goodnight, Goodnight, Construc)

Sherri Duskey Rinker - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for takeoff! This addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series features the same fan-favorite trucks in an exciting new setting: a bustling airport!. When an airport needs an expansion, the Construction Site crew is on the job!...
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Big Truck Playdate

Laurie Carmody - Beaming Books
Format: Hardcover

Corey went everywhere with his trucks. But when it came to other kids, he rode solo.When Corey's school hosts a semi-truck extravaganza, his tires squeal and his heart revs. He can't believe it! But the crowd of classmates quickly leaves him feeling overwhelmed. Corey must find...
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A Letter for Bob

Kim Rogers - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover

With humor and heart, and brought to life by Jonathan Nelson's warm, distinctive artwork, Kim Rogers's A Letter for Bob celebrates the treasured cars that carry us through our most meaningful childhood moments. Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership,...
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I'm a Garbage Truck (Little Golden Book)

Dennis R. Shealy - Golden Books
Format: Hardcover

Truck-loving preschoolers will love reading about Hopper the Garbage Truck and her very important job in this fun picture book!. I bang and I clang! I creak and I squeak! I rumble and bump as I drive up your street.. Young boys and girls will love hearing all about how garbage trucks keep...
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Cranky

Phuc Tran - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Food Group series, Pete Oswald, and debut picture book author Phuc Tran, this is a hilarious picture book about big trucks, big feelings, and even bigger friendships!It's the last day at the construction site and Cranky the crane...
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Wake Up, Trucks!

Jodie Parachini - Tiger Tales
Format: Hardcover

This bright, bold, energetic book follows a group of trucks as they begin their day and carry out their specific jobs. Perfect for young fans of construction vehicles!. Young readers can follow along as an excited group of trucks, diggers, dozers, and more wake up and have breakfast (but...
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All Aboard the Alaska Train

Brooke Hartman - Red Comet Press
Format: Hardcover

Toot toot! Come aboard the Alaska Train for a rollicking rhyming adventure with Alaska's favorite animals!Five shiny train cars roll down the railroad track, picking up passengers along the way - a porcupine, grizzly bear, caribou, and more. Soon the cars are packed, but now the train...
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Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike

Dashka Slater - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a charming take on a milestone moment, a young girl summons a cowpoke's courage to tame her intimidating new bicycle.. Kayla loves riding her pink pony, a three-wheeled bike, up and down the street, day after day. But then Daddy announces that it's time for a big-kid bike, one with...
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Trains Run!

George Ella Lyon - Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Format: Hardcover

We've already learned that trucks roll, planes fly, and boats float. Now, all aboard for the fourth book in George Ella Lyon's transportation series, and this time learn all about trains! Train travels down the track - all day gone all night back. Trains run! From steam engines...
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I Can Make a Train Noise

Michael Emberley - Neal Porter Books
Format: Hardcover

When a girl shouts "I can make a train noise, now!" her imagination transforms a coffee shop into a zooming train, and her words clickity-clack across the tracks and blare like a train horn.In a flash, salt shakers and ketchup bottles become skyscrapers, and the girl's voice...
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I Like Trains

Daisy Hirst

Whether sending toy animals on a journey around a model track or driving a cardboard-box locomotive, this little puppy really likes trains. All aboard! But best of all is riding a real train to visit someone special - and playing with more trains there! Simple yet evocative prose
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Snakes on a Train

Kathryn Dennis - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

An adorable picture book full of sibilant sounds and other word play, Snakes on a Train is as fun for parents as it is for kids, and sure to be a read-aloud hit. The conductor takes the tickets as the snakes start crawling on. The tracks are checked, the whistle...
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Trucker and Train

Hannah Stark - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Kindness and friendship triumph over bullying in this action-packed story that's perfect for fans of Little Blue Truck and Loren Long's Otis stories, and for every vehicle-obsessed little one. Trucker, the big rig, loves to rule the road with his size, strength, and mighty horn....
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A journey from dusk to dawn

Annie Cronin Romano - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

This cinematic book takes readers along on a steam engines journey through the night, from a city to a small town. Varied landscapes as well as color shifts show the passage of time from dusk to night to dawn. The rhythmic text is perfect for bedtime reading, and train lovers young...

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I Am the Subway

Kim Hyo-eun - Scribble US
Format: Hardcover

A cinematic journey through the Seoul subway that masterfully portrays the many unique lives we travel alongside whenever we take the train. A poetic translation of the bestselling Korean picture book. Accompanied by the constant, rumbling ba-dum ba-dum of its passage through the city,...
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Tow Truck Joe Makes a Splash

June Sobel - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

One for all! All for one!We can fix it! Let's have fun! It's a hot summer day in Motor City and Joe the Tow and Patch the Pup are very busy! When a back-up at the Splash 'n' Shine car wash causes a delay, Patch and Joe need help from their friends to save the day. There's...
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Cars, Signs, and Porcupines!: Happy County Book 3

Ethan Long
Format: Hardcover

Rise and shine for another bustling day in Happy County! The roads are filled with people in vehicles traveling through town. There are cars, trucks, buses, bicycles, and lots of signs to decipher on the road. This primer compendium is chock-full of lovable characters and educational content...
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What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive?

Mark Lee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dinosaurs find their ideal vehicles in this hilarious, crowd-pleasing read-aloud, perfect for fans of Dragons Love Tacos and Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site.When a stegosaurus, a pterodactyl, and a triceratops all show up at Uncle Otto's car lot, he doesn't have a clue...
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Construction Site: Road Crew, Coming Through!

Sherri Duskey Rinker - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The construction team is taking on their biggest challenge yet - building a brand-new superhighway! With the help of new rough-and-tough road-building machines, the crew gears up for an action-packed day of rolling, building, paving, painting, and all the jobs that go into making a strong...
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Time for School, Little Blue Truck

Alice Schertle - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are excited to meet a bright yellow school bus on the road. They see all the little animals lined up in the school bus's many windows, and Blue wishes he could be a school bus too. What a fun job - but much too big for a little pickup like...
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Mucky Truck

Ammi-Joan Paquette
Format: Hardcover

When a little truck gets stuck in the mud, his other truck friends come to his aid. At the end of the day, it's fire engine to the rescue! And the five friends celebrate by playing together in the slippy, sloshy, oh-so-mucky mud. With bouncy verse and visual drama, this read-aloud picture...
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Vroom!

Barbara McClintock - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Join a little girl as she zooms -- past fields and forests, up mountains, over rivers, through deserts, home again, and into bed in this playful picture book about the power of imagination, from award-winning author and artist Barbara McClintock.
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Hooray for Trucks!

Susan Hughes - Owlkids
Format: Hardcover

A joyful celebration of trucks and teamworkIt's time for the hardworking trucks at the construction site to get cleaned up! But when the narrator tries to round up the muddy machines, they dig in their wheels and refuse to be led away. They don't want to waste time being soaked...
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Big Truck Little Island

Chris Van Dusen - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

That big truck is stuck! How will the island residents get where they're going? A tale of community and ingenuity from the celebrated Chris Van Dusen, inspired by a true story.When a big truck and its big load get stuck on a narrow road, traffic on the little island comes to a halt....
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Little Taco Truck

Tanya Valentine - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

Dragons Love Tacos meets Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site in this irresistibly kid-friendly read-aloud about a little taco truck that is having trouble finding a place to park.Little Taco Truck serves up tasty treats to the hungry workers on Union Street . . . until one day, Miss...
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The Runaway No-wheeler

Peter Stein - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

THE RUNAWAY NO-WHEELER is a clever spin on a counting book and the perennial favorite, a book starring trucks. Tony is a sturdy, long-hauling 18-wheeler with a delivery to make, but many obstacles are in the way -- from potholes to slime to rescue missions to aliens' space rockets....
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Big Rig Rescue!

Chris Gall
Format: Hardcover

Chris Gall gives truck books a fresh set of wheels in a bright story of wreckers, tools, towing, and teamwork.When a semi-truck crashes in the snow, Big Orange is ready. With a crane, chains, a webbing strap, outriggers, and a winch, Orange will get the semi back on its wheels -- and when...
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Build!

Red Nose Studio - Anne Schwartz Books
Format: Hardcover

For all young truck lovers and fans of books like Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site! Watch a series of amazing construction vehicles - a dump truck, a bulldozer, and many others - build a building unlike any other. Then delight in the surprise ending, where young readers and listeners...
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If You Were a Garbage Truck or Other Big-Wheeled Worker!

Diane Ohanesian - Random House Studio
Format: Hardcover

The perfect picture book for any vehicle-obsessed kid to see life through the eyes of a big-wheeled worker!Fans of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site discoverhow big-wheeled vehicles really feel about the work they do. This raucous rhyming story puts preschoolers in the driver's...
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Big Truck Day

Rosanne Parry - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for Big Truck Day! Celebrate trucks, reading, sharing, and community with award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Rosanne Parry and debut illustrator Niki Stage. Big Truck Day is a wonderful choice for readers who love vehicles of all kinds and for fans of Goodnight,...
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Lily Leads the Way

MARGI PREUS - ‎Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A little sailboat has a big burst of determination when a fleet of tall ships needs assistance.Lily the sailboat is small but sturdy, in a harbor full of enormous cargo ships, speedy fishing vessels, and bossy tugboats that all have somewhere to go. And something to say - mostly, "Out...
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And Then Came Hope

Stephen Savage - Neal Porter Books
Format: Hardcover

From Geisel Honor Book author and artist Stephen Savage comes a new vehicle book for the very young, sure to provide comfort and reassurance, based on the true story of the S.S. Hope hosital ship!The boats around the harbor haven't been feeling too well lately. First, Barge got bonked....
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River

Elisha Cooper - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honor winner Elisha Cooper invites readers to grab their oars and board a canoe down a river exploration filled with adventure and beauty.A breathtaking adventure as a traveler and her canoe begin their trek down the Hudson River. In a mountain lake, the canoe gently enters the water's...
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Taxi, Go

Patricia Toht - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

With energy and exuberance, the author of Pick a Pine Tree and the illustrator of Angry Cookie pair up for a bustling day in the life of a big-city taxicab. . Today will be a busy day for Taxi! There are plenty of passengers to pick up, and they all need a ride - to a football game, a play,...
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Trucky Roads

Lulu Miller - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

The city is a busy place and home to many kinds of trucks in this rollicking picture book about all the trucks on the road - big, small, real and imagined!. Trucky Roads sees all kinds of trucks, and when he imagines the kinds of trucks that could be, there is no stopping him. From a cloud...
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I Am La Chiva!: The Colorful Bus of the Andes

Karol Hernández - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Little Blue Truck, Red Truck and The Little Engine That Could, a rhyming ode to a colorful South American bus and the collective spirit of its people.. This joyful and rhyming picture book written by a debut author and illustrated by the beloved creator of Nightlights and Hicotea,...
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