Favorite Transportation Books

I've been a little slow in getting this up, but here are some of the books we used during our T is for Truck preschool unit. It mostly became an overall transportation unit. We read a lot of books, but these are the ones we liked the best. Hope you like them too.

Freight Train

The pictures in this book are beautiful. It goes through each car on the train and shows them all in different colors. Then the train goes zooming through tunnels and over ravines, through the day and the night. It has very few words and is great for reading together.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
This may be a stretch for a transportation book, but who can resist the urge to read a Mo Willems book? The pigeon wants to drive the bus, but the bus driver has asked the reader to keep an eye on things. It's fun for the kids to get to tell the pigeon no over and over. You gotta love that pigeon. One of my favorite things about the pigeon books is the opportunity to read with so much expression. Reading with expression makes a decent reader a great reader.

Red Truck
This is a little board book about a little red tow truck that is able to make it through all of the snow and mud when other trucks can't.It's a short, cute book.

The Little Engine That Could
This is a classic story that every child should read. The train carrying food and toys breaks down before it can take its load to all the children on the other side of the hill. The big fancy engines won't help, but the little blue engine helps the train over the hill, all the while chanting "I think I can."

Away We Go
This was a great board book for learning about shapes. There are cutouts in the pages connecting the pictures throughout the book. We used this book with our foam shapes activity where we made cars, trucks and rockets out of different shapes. Very few words, but lots of colors and shapes.

Trucks Whizz! Zoom! Rumble! and Trains Steaming! Pulling! Huffing!
These were both great books showing different trucks and trains doing there jobs. We loved all of the pictures. There was so much going on to talk about.

Let's Go For a Drive
Another wonderful Mo Willems Elephant and Piggie book! Elephant and Piggie decide to go for a drive, but they need to gather everything they need. Once they have the map, sunglasses, umbrellas, and suitcases they are ready to go, until they realize they have no car for their drive. Sweet Girl loves this book. She has most of it memorized and can "read" it to me.