diff --git a/scripts/bundles/internal.ts b/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
index fbf7decc4a5..f43350e181b 100644
--- a/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
+++ b/scripts/bundles/internal.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { generateDtsBundle } from 'dts-bundle-generator';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { join } from 'path';
 
@@ -56,6 +57,29 @@ async function copyStencilInternalDts(opts: BuildOptions, outputInternalDir: str
   const privateDtsDestPath = join(outputInternalDir, 'stencil-private.d.ts');
   let privateDts = cleanDts(await fs.readFile(privateDtsSrcPath, 'utf8'));
 
+  // @stencil/core/internal/child_process.d.ts
+  const childProcessSrcPath = join(declarationsInputDir, 'child_process.d.ts');
+  const childProcessDestPath = join(outputInternalDir, 'child_process.d.ts');
+
+  // we generate a tiny tiny bundle here of just
+  // `src/declarations/child_process.ts` so that `internal/stencil-private.d.ts`
+  // can import from `'./child_process'` without worrying about resolving the
+  // types from `node_modules`.
+  const childProcessDts = generateDtsBundle([
+    {
+      filePath: childProcessSrcPath,
+      libraries: {
+        // we need to mark this library so that types imported from it are inlined
+        inlinedLibraries: ['child_process'],
+      },
+      output: {
+        noBanner: true,
+        exportReferencedTypes: false,
+      },
+    },
+  ]).join('\n');
+  await fs.writeFile(childProcessDestPath, childProcessDts);
+
   // the private `.d.ts` imports the `Result` type from the `@utils` module, so
   // we need to rewrite the path so it imports from the right relative path
   privateDts = privateDts.replace('@utils', './utils');
diff --git a/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts b/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
index 2ae6c2186a5..f95aae9b0a8 100644
--- a/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
+++ b/scripts/utils/bundle-dts.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { EntryPointConfig, generateDtsBundle, OutputOptions } from 'dts-bundle-generator/dist/bundle-generator.js';
+import { EntryPointConfig, generateDtsBundle, OutputOptions } from 'dts-bundle-generator';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 
 import { BuildOptions } from './options';
diff --git a/src/declarations/child_process.ts b/src/declarations/child_process.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b1429c312e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/declarations/child_process.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import type { Serializable } from 'child_process';
+
+// this is just so that we can bundle this type for `stencil-private.d.ts`
+// without having to run dts-bundle-generator on that whole file
+export { Serializable as CPSerializable };
diff --git a/src/declarations/stencil-private.ts b/src/declarations/stencil-private.ts
index d1951288e6d..f05b3292dd6 100644
--- a/src/declarations/stencil-private.ts
+++ b/src/declarations/stencil-private.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { result } from '@utils';
-import type { Serializable as CPSerializable } from 'child_process';
 
 import type { InMemoryFileSystem } from '../compiler/sys/in-memory-fs';
+import type { CPSerializable } from './child_process';
 import type {
   BuildEvents,
   BuildLog,