| Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Step into Reading)
| It’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it. How will he get it? He enters a car race, of course! Readers will love this fast-paced, fact-based story!
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| The Wheels on the Bus
| When The Wheels on the Bus, by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky, broke onto the scene twelve years ago, it created a sensation with its clever characters, sly subplots, luscious colors, and the incomparable flair of its moving parts. Almost a million young readers have enjoyed the wheels that go round, doors that open and shut, and people who go bumpety-bump. Today it remains as fresh and engaging as when it was first published.
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| What Makes Day and Night (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
| ‘Accompanied by NASA photographs and Dorros’s colorful, lively drawings, the text explains the Earth’s rotation in clear and simple terms. An experiment using a lamp as the ‘sun’ further clarifies the principles introduced.’ —BL.
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| Inside the Titanic (A Giant Cutaway Book)
| In this lavishly illustrated book, the gripping story of the R.M.S. "Titanic" is told in a spectacularly visual way that makes readers feel as if they are actually "inside" the giant doomed liner. A compelling text featuring the stories of real-life children who sailed on the "Titanic" accompanies the detailed cutaway illustrations of the ship. Full color.
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| Diggers & Dumpers (Things That Go Board Books)
| Shaped Board Books. Stunning and sturdy, these Shaped Board Books are perfect for little and wide eyes.
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| Dazzling Diggers (Amazing Machines)
| Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively picture book. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistable rhymes!
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| The Construction Alphabet Book
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author's trademark humor punctuates the informative text of a lively alphabet book that explores the many uses of construction equipment.
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| Machines at Work
| ‘With the call of ‘Hey, you guys! Let’s get to work,’ women and men shoulder drills and picks, board cranes and cement mixers, and set their equipment bulldozing and steamrolling across vibrant page spreads. Barton generates the excitement of road and building construction for young sidewalk engineers.’ —BL. 1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC)1987 Children...More
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| John Deere: Big Book of Tractors
| From the giant tractors on a farm to the ride-on mowers down the block, Big Book of Tractors uses close-up photographs to show what makes tractors go and how they use amazing attachments to plow, plant, and harvest their way across the fields.
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| Big Board First 100 Machines (Bright Baby)
| Suitable for babies and toddlers. Over 100 first machine words to learn. Fantastic photographs of all sorts of machines. Sturdy, large-format board book to withstand repeated learning fun.
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| John Deere: Touch and Feel: Tractor (Touch & Feel)
| DK brings John Deere's reputation for quality to this book series, along with eye-popping photos of their signature green and yellow tractors. Young readers learn about tractors, farming, as well as the world around them with incredible photographs, simple text, and a little help from Johnny Tractor. Preschoolers can touch "chunky" tractor tires, "spiky" grass, "bumpy" seeds, and much more. Each spread features a different texture and clear instruction that encourages young chil...More
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| Garbage Trucks (Pebble Plus: Mighty Machines)
| Text and photographs present garbage trucks, their parts, and their jobs.
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| Robot (DK Eyewitness Books)
| Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat. Find out how humans have created these mechanical minds and bodies.
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| Dig Dig Digging
| Busy machines for busy kids!"Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging,scooping up the earth and lifting and tipping.They make huge holes with their dig, dig, digging.They can work all day."Trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters-they all like to work hard. But after a long, happy day of beep-beeping and vroom-vrooming, even the busiest engines need to rest. This bright, bouncy, noise-filled book brings together all the vehicles that children adore.
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| Lucy: The Diamond Fairy (Rainbow Magic: The Jewel Fairies, No. 7)
| Seven jewels have been stolen from the Fairy Queen's crown! Without them, the Jewel Fairies' magical powers are fading. Read all seven books to find the jewels and save the fairies!Jack Frost is causing trouble in Fairyland again! This time, he's stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, all the fairy magic in Fairyland is fading fast!Can Rachel and Kirsty help Lucy the Diamond Fairy find the final jewel? Or will Fairyland's special magic be lost forever?
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| Monster Trucks / Cool Cars Flip Book
| Flip through the pages and look at cool cars, then flip the book over and look at monster trucks!A paperback reader that features in-your-face photos of monster trucks and cool cars in a cool flip book format! How fast is a Lamborghini Gallargo? How heavy is a monster truck? Find out these answers and more as you flip through the pages and look at cool cars, then flip the book over and look at monster trucks!
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| Tremendous Tractors (Amazing Machines)
| Fun animal farmers show readers how their crops are planted and harvested using tractors, trailers, plows, and other farm machines.
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| Demolition
| What's even more exciting to preschoolers than seeing big machines that build things? Watching the massive ones that tear them down!Crush the stone. Crush the stone. Chip and grind and munch. Make new concrete from the old. Whirr! Churr! Crunch!From the huge crane with a swinging ball (crack! ) to the toothy jaws that ram the walls (thwock! ), this rambunctious demolition, reverberating with sound words, is guaranteed to have small kids rapt. Bright spreads sho...More
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| Look What Came From China!
| Intended as a reference source for school projects, this book which is part of a multicultural series explores the foods, words, inventions, tools, customs and religions of China. It also describes the sports, animals, dance and crafts that originated there.
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| Fantastic Farm Machines
| Every day there is work to do on a farm. All kinds of work. Lifting and hauling, cutting and chopping, plowing and planting, watering and mowing. And for each of these jobs there is a special machine. Years ago, a lot of the work was done by hand, or with the help of horses and simple equipment. Then the first tractor appeared. A tractor is still one of the most important machines used on a farm. But there are lots of other amazing pieces of machinery. There are skid steers, haybines, combines, ...More
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