The Best Children’s Books About Tools

A monkey whose tool belt holds absolutely everything gets kidnapped—and has to build his way out.

The gift is a toolbox. The wish was a dollhouse. Somebody is going to have to build it.

Two boys, two shovels, and a rule: keep digging until something spectacular turns up.

Twenty-four tools, six workers, and a house going up—guess whose hands each one belongs to.

Every tool gets its own noise, and all that banging is quietly adding up to something.

A saw, a hammer, a chisel, and a plan—by the last page there is a birdhouse and a tenant.

One toolbox, one kid, then more kids—until an ordinary afternoon turns into a whole playground.

A rusty old boat, a barn full of power tools, and a familiar nursery song with a buzz saw in it.

A treehouse needs a new ladder and a patched roof, and there is a drill for that.

Five tools turn up for the first day of school each convinced it can do the job alone.

An octopus carries a coconut, a dolphin wears a sponge—tool users who never bought a toolbox.

A plunger decides it would rather be a vase, and the rest of the household has opinions.