Books like I'm Dirty!
By Kate McMullan
I'm Dirty! turns a backhoe loader into the loudest, proudest guy on the job site, and your kid will clank and rattle right along with him before you finish the page. That gleeful noise, the bragging about scooping up trash like it's the best job ever, is exactly the mood to chase next. Here's where to find more of it.
Same loud, proud vehicle bragging about its dirty job, but this time it's garbage instead of mud. I Stink! by Kate McMullan keeps the smell jokes coming.
Seven soldiers each add one part to a magnificent cannon in this cumulative folk song, until Drummer Hoff arrives to fire it off with a satisfying bang.
If your kid loves shouting DIG DIG and SCOOP SCOOP, Old MacDonald Had a Truck by Steve Goetz gives them a whole farm song to holler it into.
Less noise, more machine details. Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard slows down to show how each rig actually works between the rhymes.
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.
The engine sounds still come fast, but Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle is about a truck stopping to help friends, not showing off.
Reach for Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis when it's naptime and the vehicle sounds need to wind down instead of rev up.
The chant-along beep beep energy carries over, but Dan, the Taxi Man by Eric Ode turns the truck into a whole traveling band picking up passengers.
A bunny wants his potty and skips to the loo, joined by a parade of characters — from a lonely dodo to an elephant in a tutu — until someone important turns out to be missing.
The rhyming truck cast returns, but Little Excavator by Anna Dewdney is honest about the small guy worrying he's too little to help.
A little boy tries to get his three rambunctious robots ready for bed, but they keep coming up with excuse after excuse to stay awake.
Trucks with real personality again, but Mighty, Mighty Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker cares more about teamwork than any one machine's bragging rights.
