Books on Block Play

 

Note: Not all books are geared to three-, four-, and five-year-olds, but those that aren’t might have illustrations that children will want to use as a resource.

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• Arches to Zigzags: An Architecture ABC by Michael J. Crosbie and Steve and Kit Rosenthal

• At a Construction Site by Don Kilby

• Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Bridges! Amazing Structures to Design, Build and Test by Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth Rieth

• Build It Up and Knock It Down by Tom Hunter

• Building by Elisha Cooper

• Building Big by David Macaulay

• Building a House by Byron Barton

• Building Machines and What They Do by Derek Radford

• Building: The Hands-On Approach to Science by David Glover and Andrew Haslam

• Construction Trucks by Jennifer Dussling

• Construction Zone by Tana Hoban

• Dazzling Diggers by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker

• Dreaming Up by Christy Hale

• How a House Is Built by Gail Gibbons

• The Lot at the End of My Block by Kevin Lewis

• Machines at Work by Byron Barton

• Magic Toolbox by Mie Araki

• Roberto: the Insect Architect by Nina Laden

• Skyscrapers by Judith Dupré

• This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback

• The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell Children’s books on shapes:

• Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins • The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola

• Grandfather Tang’s Story by Ann Tompert

• It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw

• Round Trip by Ann Jonas

• Sea Shapes by Suse MacDonald

• The Shapes of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds

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