Building & Construction
Create your own storytime at home or in the classroom using this thematic starter. You'll find links to selected books in our catalog on this page and a downloadable PDF that includes additional elements like songs/rhymes and suggested materials.
Build something together with these books about construction sites and the people--and machines, of course!--that make them work.
Books for babies
- Whose Tools? - BOARD Buzzeo
- Dig, dump, roll - BOARD Sutton
- Blocks - GROWING Dickson
- Tip tip, dig dig - BOARD Garcia
- Tap tap, bang bang - CONCEPTS Garcia
Books for toddlers
- Construyendo - BOARD WRLDLANG Sutton
- Construction - GO Sutton
- Demolicion - BOARD WRLDLANG Sutton
- Rosa’s Big Bridge Experiment / Rosa yel experimento del gran puente - BILING PICTBK Spanyol
- Builders & Breakers - GO Light
- Push, dig, scoop! - GO Greene (to the tune of over in the meadow!)
- Rex wrecks it! - FAVORITES Clanton
- Smashy Town - GO Zimmerman
- Brick by brick - STORIES Sheffield
- Little Excavator - GO Dewdney
Books for preschoolers
- Diggersaurs - GO Whaite
- Bulldozer’s Big Day - GO Fleming
- What we’ll build - FAVORITES Jeffers
- Buenas noches construccion, buenas noches diversion - WRLDLANG Rinker
- Someone builds the dream - FAVORITES Wheeler
Books for school-age
- Tools Rule! - FAVORITES Meshon
- Billions of Bricks - CONCEPTS Cyrus
- Building our House - GO Bean
- Carpenter’s Helper - STORIES Rosen
Point out Words! Point out other words, such as signs and labels, when you are with your child. This helps them see the print all around and not just in books.
Answer Their Questions! Respect your child’s curiosity of the world around them by answering their hard and sometimes embarrassing observations. “Let me think about that for a while," or "That is a good question---and I do not know.” are great starting responses.
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This PDF includes selected books, songs/rhymes, tips, suggested materials, and other additional elements.