Towers, Bridges, and other Structures  

Grades PreK-3

Let's Try it Out with Towers and Bridges by Seymour Simon and Nicole Fauteux

• Simple building activities in a picture book

Into the Sky by Ryan Ann Hunter

• Picture book with simple information about skyscrapers

Cross a Bridges by Ryan Ann Hunter

Bridges are to Cross by Philemon Sturges

Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson

Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing by April Jones Prince

• Poetic story of P.T. Barnum crossing his circus elephants across the newly built Brooklyn Bridge

Sky Dancers by Connie Ann Kirk

A Book of Bridges by Cheryl Keely

Grades 3-8

Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee

• Excellent work of nonfiction that follows skyscrapers from their beginning into what is to come

Building Big by David MacCaulay

• Not to mention several others by MacCaulay

Skyscraper by Susan Goodman

• Booklist Starred Review

The Brooklyn Bridge by Elizabeth Mann

13 Bridges Children Should Know by Brad Finger

Bridges and Tunnels by Donna Latham

Fiction w/ Bridges on the cover:

Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse 

A Bridge to the Stars by Henning Mankell

Keys to the City by Lisa Schroeder

Picture Books w/ Bridges on the cover:

City of Snow by Linda Oatman High 

Miffy Loves New York City by Dick Bruna