transportation

Tells all about the early years of various forms of transportation, showing how people got around during the last half of the 19th century.

While riding in the car with Buzz and his father, Fly Guy gets blown out of the window and finds himself riding in a truck, then a boat, a train, an airplane, and maybe even a rocket.

An exploration of the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries in transportation. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, biographies, and a timeline, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how construction of the Erie Canal changed America by vastly improving the movement of goods to settlers in the newly purchased Louisiana Territory.

Describes, in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school.

Text and accompanying photographs cover a variety of ways of transporting people and goods on land, air, and sea, and discuss environmental issues involved.

Discusses the importance of transportation and describes different types of vehicles and their uses.

Presents a simple, illustrated introduction to monster trucks--their different styles, what they look like, what they do, and how they work.

Readers learn about different forms of green transportation and get tips on things we can do to make smart travel choices.

Traces the origins and historical development of transportation, discussing the wheel, sail, steam engine, internal combustion engine, and airplane, and includes a time line, glossary, and suggestions for further reading.