design and construction

Helps readers understand what it takes to build a water park, describing the materials that are used and the people involved in the construction process.

Details the process by which a road is constructed, highlighting the many tools and pieces of construction equipment used. Includes full-color photographs.

Uses several photographs to describe the materials and methods used in making a bicycle.

A new road is built so Farmer Dibble can drive his truck to town.

Chronicles the building of the Golden Gate Bridge from the planning stages to its completion fourteen years later.

Describes the inner workings of various toys, including the toy plane, doll, and teddy bear.

Alternating pages of simple and more complex text facilitate parent and child reading in this book about what it takes to design a new car.

Cartoons and text combine to describe what it was like to work on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Humorous illustrations, captions, and sidebars describe the toil and suffering involved in building the Great Wall of China during the third century B.C.

A step-by-step description of the construction of a pyramid and the burial ceremony of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Includes transparencies.