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Books in the Trucks/Cars/Big Machines genre:

Animal Stories (1957)

A Giant Little Golden Book containing The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, Animal Gym and The Merry Shipwreck.... View More

Dear Garbage Man (1957)

The new man on the garbage crew wants to recycle all the useful stuff they collect.

Author(s): Gene Zion
Illustrator(s): Margaret Bloy Graham

The Great Wheel (1957)

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1958

Big Caesar (1958)

Big Caesar is a huge, ancient truck which sixteen-year-old Ronnie Gaines has renovated and uses in a part-time hauling business. Ronnie views the big truck as a negative burden to his social life but eventually comes to realize it is the opposite bec... View More

Author(s): Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
Illustrator(s): Joe Krush

Cars and Trucks (1959)

A smaller version of The Great Big Car and Truck Book.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Fire Engines (1959)

When the fire alarm goes off, the firemen hop on the fire engines and off they go to put the fire out. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Firemen and Fire Engines (1959)

Stamps of fire engines and firemen to punch out and paste in. Ric Estrada did the stamps, Richard Scarry the pictures.... View More

Author(s): Jane Goldsmith
Illustrator(s): Ric Estrada
Richard Scarry

The Diggers (1960)

Verses on the diggers of holes from moles to Mary Anne.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Clement Hurd

The Best of Botts (1961)

Alexander Botts, world’s greatest salesman, sells Caterpillar tractors all over the United States, in France and New Guinea.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Larry Lurin

Davy Goes Places (1961)

Davy gets about on cars, trucks, trains and scooters.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Make Way for the Thruway (1961)

The road engineers change the route of the thruway so they don’t go through an old grandmother’s house.

Author(s): Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

More Mr. Small (1962)

An omnibus including The Little Auto, The Little Sail Boat and The Little Airplane.... View More

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Jean-Claude’s Island (1963)

Will a tractor come to Jean-Claude’s island in the St. Lawrence River?

Author(s): Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s): Nancy Ekholm Burkert

Original Letters of Alexander Botts (1963)

More adventures of the world’s greatest salesman.

Author(s): William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s): Tony Sarg

Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship (1964)

A history of the steel battleship from the launch of the Dreadnought in 1906 to the end of the era.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Richard Hough
Illustrator(s): Photographs

The Sailing Ship (1964)

A history of the development of sailing ships from the Egyptians to the Thomas W. Lawson, a seven-masted schooner of 1902.

Author(s): Jan de Hartog
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Boats (1967)

A collection of pictures of boats.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Cars (1967)

A collection of pictures of cars.

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

My Golden Go Go Library (1967)

A set of four books: Boats, Cars, Planes and Trains.... View More

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Read About the Busman (1967)

A history of mass transportation up to modern times and the busman.

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

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