Children's Books on roads and signs

[Mergingtraffic]

I had a chance to go to my son's library at school and saw a lot of old road children's books.  Books on topics such as building of highways, road signs, expressways and trucks.

For the road geek in me, these books are awesome.  Old pics of highways and road signs! These books were written in the 60s and 70s. 

When I was a kid, I remember reading a book on road signs, it was was all pics of signs from New York state back in the late 70s and early 80s.  Signs that if were still there we would all be trying to photograph.  A non-symbol sign that read "HILL" or "MERGING TRAFFIC".  Of course, I forgot what the book title was. 

I know it's a stretch..any titles of good children's books dealing with highways or road signs?

[Andrew T.]

When I was a kid, I remember reading a book on road signs, it was was all pics of signs from New York state back in the late 70s and early 80s.  Signs that if were still there we would all be trying to photograph.  A non-symbol sign that read "HILL" or "MERGING TRAFFIC".  Of course, I forgot what the book title was.  

Would this be I Read Signs, by any chance?  That book, more than any other, is responsible for warping my mind into what it is today.  

[hm insulators]

When I was little, I had a book titled Let's Go to Build a Highway.

[Scott5114]

My mom just got me a copy of the Oklahoma driver's manual when I was eight. The edition that was out then still had two columns labeled OLD and NEW for all the signs, showing the text and graphical versions of each sign.

[Alps]

Related: As a toddler, I had two pairs of red and yellow sneakers with road signs on them.  I'm sure that didn't hurt my interest.  I also had a set of wooden road signs for my cars to make "roads" with them.  And a play mat full of roads and signs to roll them on.  Wish I still had the mat, but at least I still have the wooden signs.  And the hundreds of model cars.

[thenetwork]

I had someone give me about an 8-page pamphlet in the early 70's about the changeover from text-based signs to symbols.  That got me hooked into signs.  I don't remember the name of the pamphlet, but on the back cover it had a diagrammatical sign of I-90/I-94 West (Wis Dells) at an intersection in Madison, WI.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Related: As a child, I had a MTQ poster with most (if not all) of the standard signs on it in my bedroom.

[usends]

When my kids were little, I found a book at the library called "Grandaddy's Highway", by Harriett Diller.  It's a childrens book about US 30, and IIRC, it's set in Pennsylvania:

"...Everybody else thought the strip of black outside was just a road. We knew better...
...I could see it - stretching all the way to the Pacific Ocean..."

[njroadhorse]

When I was a kid, I remember reading a book on road signs, it was was all pics of signs from New York state back in the late 70s and early 80s.  Signs that if were still there we would all be trying to photograph.  A non-symbol sign that read "HILL" or "MERGING TRAFFIC".  Of course, I forgot what the book title was. 

Would this be I Read Signs, by any chance?  That book, more than any other, is responsible for warping my mind into what it is today. 

Ahh! Someone else who read that book as a child.  I absolutely loved that and there was also I Read Signals IIRC.