transportation

Board pages with over thirty lift-the-flaps investigate what is beneath the hoods of cars, trucks trains, boats, helicopters, and vehicles of all kinds, discussing how they work.

The US Marine Corps offers a wide array of career opportunities. Comments from men and women who have served in the military, current statistics and forecasts, and realistic descriptions provide a useful look at Marine Corps jobs ranging from combat engineers to avionics technicians to military police.

Text and photographs look at various topics related to transportation.

In rhyming text, an exuberant cast of kids express their travel preferences while ultimately agreeing that the bus is the best ride of all because it's designed for everyone to share.

Highlights the different ways people move about their community. Explore how transportation can be similar, yet different across communities, and how the form of transportation people choose depends on how far they need to go and where they live. A close-up look at how workers around town use different forms of transportation to get to their jobs.

As the 19th century morphed into the 20th, the automobile was still in its infancy, yet more and more manufacturers were entering the burgeoning market. The first National Automobile Show was held in New York City’s Madison Square in 1900, with 51 exhibitors showing off their wares to almost 50,000 visitors. But many of these manufacturers dropped by the wayside or were merged into other companies so that by the end of the 1920s the industry was dominated by the Big Three of Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors. The vehicle that had the biggest impact was the Ford Model T (which arrived in 1908 and more than 15 million had been sold by the time production ceased in 1927), but many other American classics are covered in this publication: legends such as the Ford Mustang and Thunderbird, the Chevrolet Bel Air and Corvette, Cadillac’s De Ville and Eldorado, along with names of a bygone era such as Packard, Studebaker, and the unrivaled opulence of Duesenberg.

Simple text and pictures of different forms of transportation, such as boats, trains, buses, skates, etc.

Everybody is going to town! Look and see how each person gets there.