8 Children’s Books About Trucks for Vehicle-Loving Kids

Part of the Transportation Books for Toddlers series, this cute board book is perfect for little ones who love vehicles. Little Truck loves to explore, travelling across the land and finding fun places to play, followed by his big truck parent. The illustrations are adorable and will appeal to adults and children alike.

Garbage trucks are some of the most fun trucks, adored by many children, and it’s easy to see why — as well as driving around, they have cool mechanisms that pick up our rubbish. I Am a Garbage Truck is a truck-shaped board book that follows the journey of a garbage truck as it does its rounds and takes trash to the dump.

Little children who are starting to learn about different kinds of vehicles will have great fun reading this book, which follows five trucks based around an airport. Each of the trucks has a different job, but together, all of them do the work that is needed to help an aeroplane get ready for its flight.

If the little reader in your life loves trucks and pets, they’ll have a great time reading Puppy Truck. In this sweet story, a little boy wants a pet dog, but when he gets a pet truck instead, he realises it’s just as much fun. Carter takes his puppy truck on walks, and realises that even this unusual pet is a lot of responsibility!

Beloved vehicles can feel like part of the family, as we see in The Old Truck by the Pumphrey brothers. The beautifully-illustrated story follows a young girl who grows up on her family farm, with an old truck that eventually stops working. When the girl grows up and starts running her own farm, she decides to restore her faithful childhood companion.

Featuring a lot of construction trucks, as well as the titular digger, The Digger and the Flower tells the story of a machine that goes to work as usual on a building site; however, today, he finds a flower amongst the dirt and rocks. In addition to appealing to children who love trucks and vehicles, The Digger and the Flower is a great way to introduce caring for the environment to young readers.

More of a metaphorical vehicle than a real one, The Struggle Bus is a good read for truck-loving kids who are also learning how to deal with big feelings. Told in rhyme, it follows a child’s journey on the struggle bus as it crosses a difficult landscape, coming out of the other side of hard times after working to feel better.

In The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk, mother and son team Kabir and Surishtha Seghal give us a fun take on the old song “The Wheels on the Bus,” creating an action-packed story that follows a tuk tuk as it travels around town, encountering many different people — plus an elephant — along the way. With beautiful illustrations and a fun rhyme, The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk is great for parents and toddlers to read and sing along to together.