Staff Picks
Under Construction: Books about Building
- Emily J.
- Thursday, March 05, 2020
Collection
Looking for books for your little construction worker? This book list will satisfy your curious reader and help build her vocabulary one block at a time.
Want more books? Ask your librarian for their recommendations or call the Children's Room at Richland Library Main (803.929.3434). We can send books to your closest Richland Library location.
Building Our House
Published in 2013
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Billions of Bricks
Published in 2016
A counting book that leads readers through the day in the life of a construction worker building with bricks.
Alphabet Under Construction
Published in 2002
A mouse works his way through the alphabet as he folds the "F," measures the "M," and rolls the "R."
Tap Tap Bang Bang
Published in 2010
Describes the functions of a variety of tools as they work together to make something. What will it be?
Dreaming Up
A Celebration of Building
Published in 2012
"A collection of concrete poetry, illustrations, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world. Includes biographies of the architects, quotations, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
Construction Zone
Published in 1997
Photographs illustrate the kinds of equipment and earthmovers found at construction sites.
Construction Zone
Published in 2006
Put on your hard hat and step inside the construction zone: you're invited on a virtual tour of a building in progress. Put on your hard hat and step inside CONSTRUCTION ZONE! Caution! Construction zone ahead! Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a big building going up - and who hasn't? - will be thrilled by this behind-the-scenes look at an amazing construction project. Young readers are invited to come on a virtual tour of a building in progress, led by award-winning photographer Richard Sobol. It takes hundreds of workers, thousands of trucks and machines, and millions of nails and bolts to transform an idea on paper into an actual building in which people will live, play, shop, or work. Every single piece of the construction puzzle - big and small - must fit together flawlessly. With a clear, direct narrative and handy definitions of construction-related jobs, machines, and terms, Cheryl Willis Hudson distills this most complex of projects into language a young child can grasp. The building itself - the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank O. Gehry - is playful and colorful, sculpted to excite, delight, and surprise. Richard Sobol's vivid color photographs capture all the excitement of the busy construction site, while offering a close-up view of its breathtaking genius.
Building Books
Published in 2018
Katie loves building with blocks and is bored when she has to read, while her brother Owen likes to lose himself in a good story.
Construction Countdown
Published in 2004
Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.
Mighty, Mighty Construction Site
Published in 2017
Told in rhyming text, Excavator, Bulldozer, Crane Truck, Dump Truck, and Cement Mixer will all need to work together as they tackle their biggest job yet--a massive building.
Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper
Published in 2017
Invites readers to watch workers dig, pour, pound, and bolt a skyscraper into existence.
Roadwork
Published in 2008
There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.