roads

After reading about faraway lands, a young girl closes her eyes and imagines all the wonderful places a road could take her, from a cave full of treasure to a witch's house and even to Mexico.

Simple text and photographs describe the construction of a road and discuss the workers and equipment needed.

Best friends Agatha May Walker and Eulalie Scruggs, who live on opposite sides of busy Rushmore Boulevard, inspire their neighbors to come together and make their street a much more pleasant place.

Explains how a road is built first introducing the crew, then showing all the trucks in action, and finally showing the brand-new road as it comes to bustling life.

Tells the story of the country's highways and how they unified and changed the nation. Also describing American ingenuity, engineering, and public spirit along the way.

Provides information, useful facts, science experiments, math puzzles, stories, myths, songs, craft ideas, and poems about roads.

Describes how roads and tunnels are constructed and provides a historical perspective.

A collection thirteen ghost stories concerning an encounter with the phantom hitchhiker on roads, highways, and railroads.

Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals.