motor vehicles

Rhyming text and colorful photographs describe the different vehicles found on the road.

"Defines through text and photos core terms related to transportation"--Provided by publisher.

Follows a single, illustrated time line that provides interesting facts about important moments in the history of transportation.

Contains before and after color photos, interviews, and stories of those who produce the television series Monster Garage, and includes a pull-out poster of host Jesse James.

Provides information about the characteristics and uses of different types of land vehicles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.

Answers questions about transportation and vehicles, including "Do airships run on air?" and "Why don't ships sink?".

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes heavy-duty vehicles such as the dump truck, loaders and skidders, cranes and skycranes, monster trucks, tugboats, steamrollers, and more.

Simple rhymes introduce various large vehicles, such as dump trucks, fire engines, and tractors, and describe the work that they do.

Counts backward from ten to zero, starting with a traffic jam and ten school buses and ending with an empty highway.

Photographs and text examine the parts and functions of such large machines as trucks, jets, supertankers, tractors, bulldozers, and fire engines.