| New Way Things Work
| Guiding the reader through the complicated world of digital machines, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this book covers the latest technological developments. Each principle is explained with the help of a rather slow-witted, wooly mammoth.
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| Pyramid
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| How a House Is Built
| Describes how the surveyor, heavy machinery operators, carpenter crew, plumbers, and other workers build a house.
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| My Little Red Toolbox
| Caldecott Honor illustrator Stephen T. Johnson's My Little Red Toolbox has all the tools a child needs to hammer, drill, and have hours and hours of fun! Each spread features a sturdy working tool that's easy to remove and great to play with. Kids will even learn about colors, shapes, and counting, too!My Little Red Toolbox features seven cardboard tools that really work!A pencil and an erasable slate, for drawing up plansA ruler to measure thingsA saw that makes noise when it cuts...More
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| Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works
| How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls. Engineering the City tells the fascinating story of infrastruc...More
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| The Road Builders (Viking Kestrel Picture Books)
| Captures the sights and sounds of the busy construction workers and the bulldozers, cement mixers, cranes and backhoes they use to build a road. It is intended that children recognize these machines and become fascinated by what each one contributes to the road-building process.
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| Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections
| This picture book shows readers what goes on inside 18 of the world's largest buildings and machines. Each illustration is based on the actual plans or architects' drawings so that readers know they are looking inside real structures - not a figment of some artist's imagination. Two of these illustrations are printed on fold-out pages which are a metre wide. Packed around the cross-sections are facts about each diagram which include a medieval castle, a galleon, a coal mine, helicopter, steam tr...More
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| Janice VanCleave's Machines: Mind-boggling Experiments You Can Turn Into Science Fair Projects
| How is your forearm like a lever? * What makes it easy to pull a flag up a flagpole? * How can a windmill help to do work?Janice VanCleave's Machines includes 20 simple and fun experiments that allow you to discover the answers to these and many other questions, plus dozens of additional suggestions on how to develop your own science fair project.Learn how an elevator works using a box, string, a paper cup, and some coins; build a bubble machine with cardboard boxes, Styrofoam, and wire; and muc...More
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| The Usborne Book of Racing Cars (Young Machines Series)
| Using simple language, diagrams and cutaway illustrations, this book explains the inside workings of racing cars.
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| Amazing Buildings
| Looks inside some of the world's most amazing buildings including the Colosseum in Rome, the Alhambra in Spain, the Imperial Palace in Bejing, the Houses of Parliament in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Skydrome in Toronto. The book features cut-away illustrations to give readers an idea of how the building is laid-out, with peel-back pages to show the interior of these buildings.
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| How Things Work
| This delightful book provides an indepth insight into the scientific breakthrough and brilliant inventions that have shaped our world.
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| Concrete Mixers (Pull Ahead Books)
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| Ocean Liners: Crossing and Cruising the Seven Seas
| Ocean liners, the biggest ships on earth, changed history. Ocean liners - majestic passenger ships - once sailed all the world's seas. The busiest route, known as the Atlantic Ferry, crossed the North Atlantic. The liners that sailed there played important roles in times of both peace and war. Ships such as England's Britannia, Holland's Statendam, and Germany's Amerika transported the rich and famous as well as millions of immigrants to North America. The Titanic, am...More
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| Screws (Early Bird Physics)
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| Jimi & Isaac 3a: The Mars Mission
| Jimi and Isaac are rock stars. They're also epic heroes, intellectuals, soccer players, loving sons, and students in awe of Lipstick, their science teacher. They are wise and foolish, sublime and earthy. They are middle school boys.Introverted Jimi and brilliant but obnoxious Isaac pester their billionaire buddy Ash Berg into letting them "jazz up" his space expedition. Ash plays along, knowing they will fail and learn from their failure. Issac prefers to make a limited but credible effor...More
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| Pulleys (Early Bird Physics)
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| Cranes (Pull Ahead Books)
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| Levers (Early Bird Physics Books)
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| Inclined Planes and Wedges (Early Bird Physics)
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| Machines (Bloomsbury Illustrated Dictionaries)(Dictionary)
| Includes definitions with illustrative sentences for all sorts of words used to describe machines and how they work.
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