10 Children's Car Books I Love

On September 14th I will be a grandmother for the sixth time!

Quincy my newest granddaughter is due to arrive sometime that day and I am on pins and needles with excitement. I have the honor of caring for three of the older children and my two other grandchildren for a kid fest at grandma's house, while Mom and Dad go off to the hospital to welcome Quincy to the world. This will be the first time I will not be there to hold a grandchild just after birth. :--(

To comfort myself and make it fun, I collected my top 10 favorite children's car books to share with them in hopes of creating a car crazy grandchild to follow in my passions!

Top Ten children's car books at Grandma Jody's house:

Cars, Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry (Hardcover - Feb 5, 2001)

My Car by Byron Barton (Paperback - Aug 10, 2004)

Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root and Jill Barton (Paperback - April 12, 2004)

4.

Disney/Pixar Cars (Little Sound Book) (Board book - Oct 2006)

5.

Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks from A to Z (A Chunky Book(R)) by Richard Scarry (Board book - Oct 3, 1990)

6.

Cool Cars (Amazing Machines) by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker (Hardcover - Jun 16, 2005)

7.

Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow (Paperback - Aug 23, 2004)

Wheels On The Race Car by Alex Zane and James Warhola (Hardcover - Mar 1, 2005)

Fisher Price Cars, Trucks, Planes, and Trains Lift the Flap (Fisher-Price Little People)(Board book - Aug 10, 2004) by Nancy Rindone and SI Artists

10.

My Little Car by Gary Soto and Pamela Paparone (Hardcover - April 20, 2006)

Reading to my grandchildren is one of the simple pleasures I enjoy so much....and this collection of car stories is a pleasure to read to them and for me, too!

Jody_devere Jody DeVere
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Comments

We adore the Richard Scarry

We adore the Richard Scarry book! And any cars books, really, so thanks for the recs!

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Submitted by Super Jive on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:29

The apple car was always my favorite

Jody, what a beautiful post - thank you so much!

Richard Scarry has been a mainstay of my life -- as a child and as a parent. When I had my son, my father made a series of wooden toy cars for him based on Scarry's wonderful illustrations. Somewhere he found wooden fruits and vegetables, drilled holes and attached little wooden dowel-axles and wheels. We have an apple car, a bananamobile, a pumpkin car and an eggplant car.

I tried to get my son to share them with my niece (also Quincy!) when she arrived, but he put them away. "She can read the book, Mom, but I don't want her chewing on Grandpa's cars...."

Congratulations on the new addition to your family -- a very lucky baby indeed.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
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Submitted by Lisa Stone on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 12:41