This month we are revving up and vrooming into an exploration of Transportation! In our Away We Go Inquiry, we love finding the greatest classic and new Transportation themed books for all of our classrooms. Here are our top picks!
Toddlers:
Bugs That Go! by David Carter
Cars by Robert Green
Cars At Play by Rick Walton
Cars Galore by Peter Stein
Cars, Trucks, and Planes by Gladys Rosa Mendoza
Cool Cars and Trucks by Sean Kenney
Red Light, Green Light by Anastasia Suen
Red, Stop! Green, Go! by P.D. Eastman
Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
Stop! Go! By Brian Briggs
Fill it Up! by Gail Gibbons
Things That Go by Sarah Kappely
Two Year Olds:
Chugga Chugga Choo Choo by Kevin Lewis
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Inside Freight Train by Donald Crews
James and the Balloons by Christopher Awdky
The Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter
Terrific Trains by Tony Mitton
Train Song by Harriet Ziefert
Trains by Anne Rockwell
Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown
Preschool:
A Train Goes Clickety Clack by Jonathan London
A True Book of Trains by Darlene Stille
All Aboard! by Susan Kuklin
All Aboard: Berenstain Bears by Jan and Mike Berenstain
America’s Railroads by Lynn Stone
Chugga –Chugga Choo-Choo by Kevin Lewis
Diesel Locomotives by Lynn Stone
Engine, Engine Number Nine by Stephanie Calmenson
Freight Train by Donald Crews
Freight Trains by Lynn Stone
Freight Yards by Lynn Stone
The Goodnight Train by June Sobel
I Love Trains! by Philemon Sturges
Inside Freight Train by Donald Crews
James and the Balloons by Christopher Awdky
The Last Train by Gordon Titcomb
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
The Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter
The Little Train by Lois Lenski
My Little Train by Satomi Ichikawa
Passenger Trains by Lynn Stone
Steam Locomotives by Lynn Stone
Steam Train, Dream Train by Shem Duskey Rinker
Terrific Trains by Tony Mitton
Train by Anne Lewis
The Train by David McPhail
Train Song by Harriet Ziefert
Train Whistles by Helen Roney Sattler
Trains by Gail Gibbons
Trains by Patricia Hubbell
Trains by Anne Rockwell
Trainstop by Barbara Lehman
Two Little Trains Margaret Wise Brown
PreK:
The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra and Sal Barraca
Alphabee!: A Zipping, Zooming ABC by Debora Pearson
The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bernie Drives A Truck by D. Radford
Bumper to Bumper by Jakki Wood
Car Wash by Sandra Steen
The Car Trip by H. Oxenbury
Cargo Machines and What They Do by Derek Radford
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry
Cars by Anne Rockwell
Cars: Rushing! Honking! Zooming! by Patricia Hubbell
Cool Cars by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
Crashed, Smashed, and Mashed by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
Everything I Know About Cars by Tom Lichtenheld
Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow
How Many Trucks Can A by C. Pomerantz
I Didn’t Know That Cars Can Swim by William Petty
If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen
In the Driver’s Seat by Max Haynes
Land Transportation by S. Blackman
The Little Black Truck by Libba Moore
Mr. Gumpy’s Motor Car by John Burningham
My Car by Byron Barton
My Race Car by Michael Rex
My Truck is Stuck by Kevin Lewis
Race Car (Why Things Don’t Work) by David West
Racer Dogs by Bob Kolar
Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root
Sputter, Sputter, Sput! by Babs Bell
Start Your Engines: A Countdown Book by Mark Todd
This is the Way We Go To School by Edith Baer
Toad on the Road by Susan Schade
Truck Song by Diane Siebert
Trucks by Byron Barton
Vroom! Vroom! by Steve Augarde
Vroomaloom Zoom by John Coy
Wheels on the Race Car by Alex Zane
Who is Driving? by Leo Timmers