vehicles

Photographs and text look at the different ways of traveling on land, in water, and in the sky.

Questions and answers describe several types of vehicles that use wings, wheels, or sails as their means of propulsion. Includes facts and statistics on vehicular movement and suggestions for activities and projects.

Explanation of many inventive mega machines including military airplanes, the smallest and longest automobiles, and the fastest elevators.

Young readers are asked to find out how Maisy and her friends will get to where they want to go.

Everyday examples, such as a motorcycle and a tricycle, demonstrate differences in speed.

Describes a vehicle or street sign for every letter of the alphabet from Ambulance to Zamboni.

Laminated pages with transparent overlays introduce various types of cars, trucks, bicycles, bulldozers, and other vehicles.

Chronicles the transportation developments that have shaped human life from the invention of the wheel to the first walk on the moon, providing descriptions, illustrations, and diagrams and covering such topics as roads, navigation, internal combustion, and mass production.

Milo the mouse moves to the country because the noisy city traffic keeps him awake at night.

On discovering late Christmas Eve that he has forgotten to drop off one present, Santa Claus wearily makes his way in a variety of conveyances to the top of the Roly Poly Mountains to deliver it.