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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Still have my copy from childhood.

Try /r/parenting/ and /r/raisingkids/ (slightly less toxic)

Many kids don't begin to read until they enter kindergarten (age 5). If this 4-year-old is being taught by his parents to read, or gets such instruction (say, in a Montessori preschool) find out if he's in the early stages, or he's going full bore reading regular picture books and 'early reader' books on his own. Such a child typically enters kindergarten reading at a first or second grade level.

Unless he's a strong reader, the safe and good bet is to buy books with the intent that his parents will read the books to him. So even a chapter book could be appropriate if the subject matter interests him to be read a chapter or two each night at bedtime.

There are loosely ordered by my recommendation level:

• Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. This one is bursting with vehicles, tons to take in on every double page... mostly passenger vehicles, but all manner of other types of vehicles make their own appearance, plus lots of absurd ones (a gorilla driving a banana car, etc.) One scene is in a construction site. A thin story line ties each scene together (the pig family going on a car trip, and Officer Flossy chasing down the speeding Dingo Dog). A fun feature is a yellow bug ("Goldbug") hidden in a different place on each double page. Be sure to get the hardcover. Even when Mom or Dad isn't there to read it, the book is fun to look through.
  
  
• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Amazon link). This is a true classic from 1939. A steam shovel was antiquated even in 1939, but that's the theme of this story.
  
  
• Trashy Town (garbage truck) This one is fun if you can get him repeating the story's refrain with you... "Is the trash truck full yet? {yelling} NOOOO! Mister Gilly drives on..."
  
  
• I Stink (garbage truck)
  
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
  
  
• Justin Roberts Greatest Hits CD (or MP3s). I mention this one only because he has a song Obsessed by Trucks.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel was always one of my favorites.

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel also The Little House that was another of my favorites. Katy and the Big Snow was also pretty damn good, those three books are involved in some of my fondest childhood memories...

1. I swam in the Panama Canal once.
   
2. I'd like to give this book to my friend for her son.
   
3. There's a penguin on top of the telly.
   
   Thanks!!

https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Mulligan-His-Steam-Shovel/dp/0395259398/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=mike+mulligan+and+his+steam+shovel&qid=1572715539&sprefix=mike+mulligan&sr=8-1

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