Books like Digger, Dozer, Dumper
By Hope Vestergaard
Digger, Dozer, Dumper gives every truck its own turn, and the kid who shouts "backhoe!" out the car window will want to name each one before you turn the page. Sixteen little poems, sixteen machines, all doing their own job. If your kid needs a whole book of trucks working, start below.
Same rhyming truck love, but I Stink! by Kate McMullan hands the whole show to one garbage truck bragging about his smelly job.
The rhymes keep building the same way, and Dan, the Taxi Man by Eric Ode adds a band riding along for the noise.
If your kid already chants the digger poem from Old MacDonald Had a Truck by Steve Goetz, this one hands them a whole tune to sing it to.
Same noisy machine sounds, but Roadwork by Sally Sutton walks through building an actual road from start to finish.
Trucks become animals here, and One, Two, Three!: A Happy Counting Book by Sandra Boynton builds its energy from counting up loud instead of naming vehicles.
One backhoe loader gets the spotlight in I'm Dirty! by Kate McMullan, loving his mess with the same pride as any digger fan's favorite truck.
On a scorching day, Junie and Jake, Poppa, and the baby set off for the lake in a rattling, wheezing car that doesn't go fast and doesn't go far.
Dump Truck, Excavator, Cement Mixer, Bulldozer and their construction-site pals face their biggest job yet, teaming up with new friends like Skid Steer and Backhoe to get it done.
A young bunny tired of cooked carrots and his big ears decides to leave home and try life as a bear, a bird, or a pig instead — searching for where he really belongs.
The rhythm builds the same way, one soldier at a time, until Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley fires the whole cannon off.
A stretchy superhero worm spends his days rescuing bugs in trouble, until a wicked Wizard Lizard captures him — and his friends must find a way to set him free.
Determined to make his wife the best birthday cake ever, a grandfather sets out to bake a whopper of a chocolate cake — and turns the whole kitchen into a glorious disaster.
