Books like Tip Tip Dig Dig
By Emma Garcia
Tip Tip Dig Dig turns a truck-watching toddler into a full sound machine, lift-lift-lifting with the crane and roll-roll-rolling with the steamroller before the whole messy site turns into a playground. Your kid will want to do every noise again immediately. Here are more books for the kid who can't walk past a construction site without stopping.
Same clang and crunch of machines at work, but Roadwork by Sally Sutton adds real people directing the job alongside the trucks.
No trucks here. From Head to Toe by Eric Carle gets your kid up stomping and wiggling along with the animals instead of just listening.
Demolition by Sally Sutton runs the same job-site sounds in reverse, knocking things down instead of building the playground back up.
Eight different trains roll through with their own sounds, from a steam train's CHUGGA chugga chugga CHOO CHOOOOOOO to a diesel train's zooosh and an American train's clang clang clang TOOT TOOT.
Same short bouncy lines and big feeling of every page, but Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!: A Book of Opposites by Sandra Boynton turns the noise into big versus tiny instead of machine sounds.
Trucks Go by Steve Light keeps the one-sound-per-vehicle setup but hands the noises to a garbage truck and a fire engine.
A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
A wacky crew of hippos, cats, pigs, and cows count from a quiet One all the way up to a LOUD LOUD LOUD Ten — then back down to quiet One again.
Save this one for right before bed. Wiggle by Doreen Cronin winds toddlers down after all that machine noise instead of amping them up.
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins keeps hands busy too, just drumming with monkeys instead of steering a bulldozer.
Little Excavator by Anna Dewdney keeps the rhyming trucks and building noise but adds a small character worried he's not big enough to help.
A curious kid heads outside to explore wind firsthand — feeling it push and pull, chasing hats, and figuring out why something you can't see is so easy to feel.
