If a child likes hands-on activities and practical problem-solving tasks, they might score high as a Realistic personality type on the RIASEC framework. Below is a list of titles that might appeal to Realistic kids from ages 0-5:

Future Astronaut
by Lori Alexander & Allison Black (illustrator)
2019

Up, Down, and Around
by Katherine Ayres & Nadine Bernard Westcott (illustrator)
2007

Sam & Dave Dig a Hole
by Mac Barnett
2014

Building Our House
by Jonathan Bean
2013

Shapes at Play
by Silvia Borando
2016

Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book About Building
by Kurt Cyrus
2016

When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree
by Jamie L.B. Deenihan & Lorraine Rocha (illustrator)
2019

Blocks
by Irene Dickson
2016

Growing Vegetable Soup
by Lois Ehlert
1987

Stack the Cats
by Susie Ghahremani
2017

Be a Maker
by Katey Howes & Elizabet Vukovic (illustrator)
2019

Dig In!
by Cindy L. Jensen-Elliott & Mary Peterson (illustrator)
2016

Emergency!
by Haley Kershaw (illustrator)
2019

Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
by Marie Lamba, Baldev Lamba & Sonia Sanchez (illustrator)
2017

Even Monsters Need Haircuts
by Matthew McElligott
2010

The Dreamer
by Il Sung Na
2018

It’s a Seashell Day
by Dianne Ochiltree & Elliot Kreloff (illustrator)
2015

Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer
by David Shannon
2019

The Most Magnificent Thing
by Ashley Spires
2014

Tops & Bottoms
by Janet Stevens
1995

The Monster at the End of this Book
by Jon Stone & Michael Smollin (illustrator)
2004

Roadwork
by Sally Sutton & Brian Lovelace (illustrator)
2008

Press Here
by Hervé Tullet
2011

If I Built a Car
by Chris Van Dusen
2005

If I Built a House
by Chris Van Dusen
2012

Trashy Town
by Andrea Zimmerman, David Clemesha & Dan Yaccarino (illustrator)
1999

Smashy Town
by Andrea Zimmerman, David Clemesha & Dan Yaccarino (illustrator)
2020