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Chuck's Truck

Peggy Perry Anderson - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

Old Blue is Chuck's truck. When Chuck gets ready to go to town, his barnyard friends gather around. Into the truck climb the duck Luck, dogs Nip and Tuck, the burro Buck, workhorse Huck, the chicken that goes "cluck," Sue and Lou, and the goat Flo, too. So come along, jump...
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Fire Truck vs. Dragon

Chris Barton - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Can a Fire Truck and a Dragon be friends? Find out in this new companion to the household favorite Shark vs. Train!It's the wackiest rivalry ever, when the fire-breathing ruler of the skies and the fearless fire truck go head to head in an epic battle of fire vs water! Who will win?But...
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Where's My TRUCK

Karen Beaumont - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Tommy's not himself today. He's lost his T-R-U-C-K! And no matter what Mom, Dad, sis, brother, and Grandma offer, it's just not as fun as his best red truck. The family dog isn't as picky, and sharp-eyed readers will wonder what happens to the cast-off toys Bowser gets his mouth...
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Jack's House

Karen Magnuson Beil - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

Construction-equipment loving boys will adore this humourous twist on the classic nursery rhyme. Someone has done a lot of work building a house. Someone has been operating a cement mixer, driving a bulldozer, and using a forklift to build walls, frame windows, and nail down a roof. Someone...
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Truck Full of Ducks

Ross Burach - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book

Did you call for a truck full of ducks? Join the flock on this wacky call-and-response ride to find out just WHO did--and why.
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Big Truck and Little Truck

Jan Carr
Format: Hardcover

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Get to Work, Trucks

Don Carter - Roaring Brook Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Join eight hardworking machines for a day at the building site. Don Carter combines the irresistible lure of heavy machinery with simple learning concepts and bright dimensional art -- as vivid and appealing as the toys in the toy box.
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Drive

Nathan Clement - Front Street, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

A little boy reveres his truck-driving dad. A little boy tells the story of what his dad does in his long day of driving a truck. Startlingly vivid graphic images of a big rig rendered in vibrant colors and compelling compositions make life on the road seem exotic and beautiful even as they...
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The Little Fire Truck

MARGERY CUYLER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Little Fire Truck is ready for rescues big and small in Book 3 of the Little Vehicles series!Join firefighter Jill and her fearless little fire truck as they zip all over town to put out smoky fires and rescue those in need, with the help of the fire crew in this picture book companion...
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Big Rig Bugs

Kurt Cyrus - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Clear that thicket, dozer cricket.Ants that sift, sort and lift.Big bug rig, watch it dig.Lifting, sorting, digging, and hauling are dirty jobs, but someone's got to do them. So when a construction worker throws away a half-eaten sandwich, a crew of bugs gets to work clearing the area...
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A Fire Truck Named Red

Randall De SeÌ?ve - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book

A young boy has his heart set on a brand-new toy fire truck, so he is disappointed when he gets his grandfather's rusty old fire truck, Red, instead. But working together, the boy and his grandfather patch Red right up while Grandpa tells his grandson all about the adventures he had with...
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Little excavator

Anna Dewdney - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of the Llama Llama books comes a new character ready to dig his way into your heart!Here come the BIG RIGS rolling down the street. Thumpa-thumpabumpa-bumpaBEEP! BEEP! BEEP!There's Loader and Dump Truck, Backhoe and Crane....
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Dumpy the Dump Truck

Julie Edwards - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Print book

After Charlie and his grandfather fix up a rusty old dump truck, they use Dumpy to help Trundle the tractor, Bee Bee the backhoe, and Stinky the garbage truck build a new barn.
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Dumpy: Dumpy Saves Christmas Dumpy Saves Christmas

Julie Andrews Edwards

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Bulldozer's Big Day

Candace Fleming - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Big trucks and a birthday surprise make this construction site treat an irresistible read-aloud, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist!It's Bulldozer's big day - his birthday! But around the construction site, it seems like everyone is too busy to remember. Bulldozer wheels around asking...
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Five Trucks

DK Publishing - DK CHILDREN; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Here are five trucks with a single purpose. Clue #1: A boy and his father watch the busy drivers of the five trucks through a large window. clue #2: A plaid suitcase is an important part of the progress that father and son are following. The five trucks -- each labeled appropriately as catering...
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Dinotrux

Chris Gall - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Millions of years ago, DINOTRUX ruled the earth! These mighty part-truck, part-dino creatures rumbled, plowed and bulldozed their way through the centuries, demolishing anything in their path. From the nosy Craneosauraus and the mega-hungry Garbageadon to the bully of the jungle, Tyrannosaurus...
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The Little Black Truck

Libba Moore Gray

A charming tale depicted in luminous pastels recounts the history of a trusty pickup truck left out in the woods after it gets too old to work anymore, until the owner's grandson restores its original beauty. Children's BOMC Main.
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Push! Dig! Scoop!: A Construction Counting Rhyme

Rhonda Gowler Greene - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Down at the construction site, mama and papa trucks show their youngsters how to build. Push oosh goes a big mama bulldozer and her one little dozer! Dig schlup goes a tough papa excavator and his two little excavators! Count along with every scooping, mashing, and spinning...
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The Road That Trucks Built

SUSANNA LEONARD HILL - Little Simon
Format: Hardcover

Join the ride as a team of adorable vehicles work together to build a new road in this fresh, cement-mixing spin on the classic nursery rhyme, "The House That Jack Built."This is the traffic that's moving too slow. Cars and buses have nowhere to go. What is the answer? I'm...
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I Am a Backhoe

Anna Grossnickle Hines - Tricycle Press
Format: Hardcover

"Dig, dig, dig. Lift, turn, tip.I am . . .a backhoe." In spare text and vibrant illustrations, a little boy pretends to be a bulldozer, a crane, a dump truck, and a roller. And finally, he parks on the couch with his father for a quiet moment.
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Mighty Dads

Joan Holub - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A new constructacular picture book from the New York Times bestselling creator of Pete the Cat, James Dean and bestselling author, Joan Holub.Mighty dads, strong and tall,help their children, young and small.They keep them safe and bolted tightand show them how to build things right.Inventively...
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Firefighters: Speeding! Spraying! Saving!

Patricia Hubbell - Two Lions
Format: Book

Clang Clang Clang Firefighters rush into their fireproof suits They pull on their helmets gloves and boots Then off they roar in their trucksxzooming away to save the day
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Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble

Patricia Hubbell - Amazon Children's Publishing
Format: School & Library Binding

Fast trucks, slow trucks, old trucks and new. For children who are fascinated by machines of transport, any sort of truck will do! Illustrated with mixed media collages, this simple rhyming story pays homage to every shape, size, and color of truck, while delighting in the jobs they perform...
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When Daddy's Truck Picks Me Up

Jana Novotny Hunter - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover

Daddy drives a big red tanker truck, and he's away on the road a lot. But once in a while, he's near enough to pick up his little boy from preschool. And today is one of those very special days!
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Monster Trucks

Joy Keller - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

All monsters love the autumn air,just right to sneak and spook and scare.But other seasons of the year,they shift into a different gear.Monsters get to work -- paving roads, plowing snow, hauling muck -- with their monster trucks in this fun, rhyming picture...
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Trash Trucks

Daniel Kirk

Each morning, at the crack of dawn, the trash trucks make their way through the city streets, feasting on the garbage that soils and clogs the community, in a brightly illustrated, fun-filled look at the world of the great garbage gobblers.
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Truckeroo School

David Kirk - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

This joyful story and picture book about creativity and acceptance will touch little monsters and their families, especially those who love TRUCKS!Everyone in Truckeroo Must drive a truck -- the children too.The very day that kids are bornThey're handed tailpipes,...
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My Truck is Stuck!

Kevin Lewis - Hyperion Book CH; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

My Truck Is Stuck. Rotten luck. Can't go! My truck is stuck. Tug and tow. Two engines roar. But the truck won't go. Not one inch more. Does anyone know how to make my stuck truck go? In this lyrical read-aloud, young drivers are introduced to the ins and outs of hauling, beeping,...
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My Big Rig

Jonathan London - Marshall Cavendish Children
Format: Hardcover

Zoom! While playing with his toy truck, a little boy imagines himself driving an eighteen-wheeler through a city, across a bridge, and into the countryside. Along the way, he uses his two-way radio and parks at a truck stop. Finally, he reaches the coast, where he unloads his cargo. His imagination...
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Hot Rod Hamster: Monster Truck Mania!

Cynthia Lord - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling team Cynthia Lord and Derek Anderson are back with the best Hot Rod Hamster adventure yet: Monster Truck Mania!It's Fair Day, and Fearless Franco's famous Monster Truck Mania has come to town. Hot Rod Hamster and his friends are geared up for a roaring,...
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Monsters on Machines

Deb Lund - Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Meet Stinky Stubb, Dirty Dugg, Gorbert, and Melvina, the craftiest crew of monsters ever to build a house. With hard hats and heavy machinery, these feisty fellas dig, dump, hammer, nail, and—after a surprise lunch of Mama’s special monsteroni and cheese—they even squeeze...
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Trucks Roll! (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))

George Ella Lyon - Various Pub.]
Format: Kit

"Trucks bring ice cream. Trucks bring blocks, books and bulldozers, dolls and socks." Through mountains and flatlands, past deserts and towns, the trucks are rolling! With its rhyming text and bold illustrations, Trucks Roll! invites kids along on a day in a trucker's...
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The Old Blue Pickup Truck

Jenny Mattheson - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

For a little girl, there’s nothing better than running errands with Daddy in a trusty old blue pickup truck. When they go to the bakery, Old Blue is a restaurant. When they go to the hardware store, Old Blue is a toolshed. And when they go out to a neighboring farm, Old Blue is a barnyard!...
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I'm Tough!

KATE MCMULLAN - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

From the popular creators of I Stink! and I'm Dirty! comes the perfect tough addition to their noisy series: a pick-up truck!I'm not the BIGGEST TRUCK in the parking lot . . . but when my cargo bed's PACKED and STACKEDI've got what it takes to HAUL it ALL! You can count on me - I'll get the job done!...
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Wake Up Engines

Denise Dowling Mortensen - Clarion Books; None edition
Format: Hardcover

From the creators of the luminous GOOD NIGHT ENGINES comes an energetic good-morning book filled with short, rhyming text that fairly bounces off the page, lots of onomatopoeia, and bright, vibrant close-ups of all kinds of vehicles and aircraft. School buses, garbage trucks, street sweepers,...
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The Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck

Laura Murray - Putnam Juvenile; Rei/Pstr edition
Format: Hardcover

Guess who gets to go along on a field trip to the firehouse? The Gingerbread Man! But when he falls out of his classmate's pocket, Spot the Dalmatian comes sniffing around. Luckily, this Gingerbread Man is one smart cookie, and he races into the fire truck, up the pole, and all through...
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A Fire Engine for Ruthie

Lesléa Newman - Clarion Books
Format: Print book

Ruthie loves to visit Nana, but they don't always like to play with the same things. Ruthie loves fire engines and motorcycles, while Nana loves dolls and dress-up clothes. Nana's neighbor, Brian, gets to play with fire engines and motorcycles. So why doesn't Ruthie? Energetic...
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Kai to the Rescue!

Audrey Penn - Orchard Books
Format: Print book

Kai is a small green-and-white pumper truck who moves into Firehouse #10. Firehouse #10 has some of the biggest, reddest fire trucks around. So how can Kai fit in with the other fire trucks? When a big fire breaks out, it's Kai who saves the day! From the "New York Times"...
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Puppy Truck

Brian Pinkney - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Find out what happens when a boy who wants a puppy gets a truck instead in this simple and sweet picture book from Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkney. Vroom ... beep ... bark! Carter wants a puppy, but he gets a truck instead. So he pets it, puts a leash around it, and takes it to the park....
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Curious George and the Dump Truck

Margret Rey - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Curious about the big truck next door, George takes a closer look. He wants to see how it works. Before long he finds that one little lever can mean great big trouble! But George quickly puts his monkey ingenuity to work and finds a surprising solution to his messy mishap.
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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site

Sherri Duskey Rinker - Chronicle Books
Format: Audiobook

The #1 New York Times bestsellerAs 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...
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Mighty, Mighty Construction Site

Sherri Duskey Rinker - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestsellerAt last - here from the team behind the beloved international bestseller comes a companion to Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. All of our favorite trucks are back on the construction site - this time with a focus on team-building, friendship, and working...
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Good Morning, Digger

Anne Rockwell - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

When a group of construction trucks comes rolling down the street and gets to work on an empty lot, a young boy is fascinated by all the excitement, noise, and movement taking place as the wonderful new structure slowly begins to take shape.
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Supertruck

Stephen Savage - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

When the city is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one superhero can save the day. But who is this mysterious hero, and why does he disappear once his job is done?Find out in this snowy tale about a little truck with a very big job, the second of Stephen Savage's vehicle-based picture books.
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Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night?

Brianna Caplan Sayres - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The bedtime rituals of little diggers and dump trucks at a construction site should be quite familar to kids saying goodnight. Young readers will identify with fire engines, tractors and monster trucks as the vehicles ask for one more story while their mommy trucks tuck them...
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Good Night, Little Blue Truck

Alice Schertle - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Beep! Beep! Beep! It's time for sleep. Say goodnight with Little Blue Truck and friends--a perfect bedtime read-aloud in this bestselling series! A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long...
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Little Blue Truck

Alice Schertle - Harcourt
Format: Audio CD

Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick up--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to whatever it takes to get their...
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Little Blue Truck Leads the Way

Alice Schertle - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Zooom! Wooeeee . . . ! Make way! The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. Everywhere Blue looks, he sees buses, police cars, taxis, vans, a street sweeper, and even the mayors limousine. With everyone pushing to be first, soon theres a giant traffic jam!...
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D is for Dump Truck: A Construction Alphabet

Michael Shoulders - Sleeping Bear Press
Format: Print book

Construction equipment has long been a favorite of little readers and D is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a fun backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction up close and personal.
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Garage Tales

Jon Scieszka - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Three of the best-selling Ready to Rolls are bunched together for the latest Trucktown hardcover. In PETE'S PARTY, Jack and Gabby navigate, swerve, curve and bounce around the roads of Trucktown until they arrive at Pete's place for a party. Max is having so much fun that he keeps...
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Melvin Might? (Jon Scieszkas Trucktown)

Jon Scieszka - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Cement Mixer Melvin worries a lot. He worries he might get dirty. He worries he might get stuck. He even worries he might get worried. But one fateful day Rescue Rita is in need of a little rescuing, and Trucktowns biggest worrywart is the only one who can save the day. Theres just one problem:...
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Smash! Crash!

Jon Scieszka - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Jack Truck and his best friend Dump Truck Dan are spending the day doing their favourite thing...Smashing and Crashing throughout the whole town! Along the way the meet up with their friends and give us a rollicking tour! But when a mysterious shadow falls over them and a strange voice...
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Truckery Rhymes

Jon Scieszka - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

For generations these classic, high-octane rhymes, songs, and tales have been passed down from truck to truck. Lucky for us, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature has collected them all into one really big, noisy volume. From "Peter Peter Payload Eater" to "Pop...
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Troto and the Trucks

Uri Shulevitz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Troto is a happy little car who likes to go places. One day after a long drive, he arrives in Cactusville, where he meets some big trucks. But when those big trucks laugh at how small Troto is, Troto doesn't feel very happy anymore, so he challenges them to a race to show them just what...
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Fire Truck

Peter Sis - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Matt loves fire trucks, and one morning when he wakes up, he is a fire truck--right down to his hoses, hooks, and ladders! His wheels and sirens couldn't be handier for performing many important duties around the house, especially rescuing teetering teddy bears or precariously placed pets....
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Monkey Truck

Michael H Slack - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 1/18/2011Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 2 and Up
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The Grumpy Dump Truck

Brie Spangler
Format: Print book

This dump truck has a bad attitude.It's not easy being a dump truck, hauling heavy dirt from one place to the next. All that work has made Bertrand decidedly grouchy. But when he meets Tilly, a cheerful porcupine construction worker, Bertrands attitude begins to change. Can this grumpy...
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LEGO City: Fix That Truck!

Michael Anthony Steele - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

Spend a day at the garage fixing trucks in this funny LEGOR City storybook!Eric is spending the day working at his dads LEGOR City garage. Hes excited to help fix all the trucks and motorcycles, but there seems to be trouble around every corner! First Eric knocks over a pyramid of tires,...
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Diggers Are Coming!

Susan Steggall - Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format: Book

The diggers are coming! The diggers are coming, with massive metal mouths. Their teeth are tearing at the ground and their tracks trudge round and round and round. Follow all the people and vehicles involved in building a house - from the wreckers coming to clear the ground, through planners,...
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Minerva Louise and the Red Truck

Janet Morgan Stoeke - Dutton Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

Fans of the funky chicken Minerva Louise can journey along with her in her red truck as she ventures to the countryside to see and experience all the sights in her very unique way.
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Want to Play Trucks?

ANN STOTT - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Jack likes trucks. Alex likes dolls. What will they play together? Their new favorite game, of course!Jack and Alex meet almost every morning in the sandbox at the playground. Jack likes trucks - big ones, the kind that can wreck things. Alex likes dolls - pink ones, with sparkles....
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Road Work Ahead

Anastasia Suen - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover

When a family sets out on a trip to Grandma's, their journey proves to be more like a visit to a construction site. Sidewalks are being poured, streetlights repaired, roads resurfaced. The noise of jackhammers, whistles, and horns fills the air. Boys and girls alike will love seeing...
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Roadwork

Sally Sutton - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

Every preschooler who is mad for machines will revel in this bright, boisterous picture book about the exciting process of building a road."Load the dirt. Load the dirt. Scoop and swing and drop. Slam it down into the truck. Bump! Whump! Whop!"There are many big machines and busy...
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Big Rig

Jamie A. Swenson - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Come along for the ride as Frankie the big rig truck takes us on the job, driving past kiddie cars (school buses) and land yachts (RVs) . Hear the horn blow and the wipers schwat the windshield clean. But, BANG! SHHUUU! Uh-oh: a blow-out! Don't worry, a service truck saves the day so we can get the job done...
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Food Trucks!

Mark Todd - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

"Talk about your meals on wheels!" A convoy of comic food trucks is heading your way, serving up a mouthful of good eats with a side of humor and verse. They've got everything from french fries to falafel. You can sample sushi. Build a burger. Eat an empanada! There's a food truck...
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Fire Trucks in Action (Tonka Power Reading)

Victoria Hickle - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

All your favorite Tonka vehicles in action!. Non-stop fire truck action with spot art illustrating key words to help young readers.
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Tonka : I'm a Great Big TOW TRUCK!

Michael Anthony Steele - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

This 8x8 storybook is the first in an exciting new Tonka series, written from the truck's point of view. This story shows children the many jobs a tow truck can do!The realistic, full-color illustrations of a tow truck in action, with an thrilling story told from its point of view,...
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Farmer Dale's Red Pickup Truck

Lisa Wheeler - Harcourt
Format: Print book

Farmer Dale is hauling a load of hay into town when, one by one, he meets some bossy barnyard animals looking for a lift. The kindly farmer lets them all squeeze in, but then his trusty truck breaks down and everyone is stranded. That is, until they get over their differences and pull together...
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A Hole in the Road

Jakki Wood - Frances Lincoln Children's
Format: Hardcover

When a hole appears in the road, the workers have to use lots of different big machines to help them fix it. Diggers, road rollers, dump trucks - everything has an important job to do. Follow the workers as they clear the rubble, add crushed stones, pour on the hot asphalt, make sure the surface...
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