carriages and carts

Life on a farm only gets better when summer becomes fall. All the work of tending crops and driving tractors suddenly becomes an exciting hayride when the weather gets cooler. Young readers will grab some friends and hop on some bales of hay to check out the fall sights on a farm. Maybe if their hayride happens around Halloween it will be haunted! With accessible text and stunning photographs, this book is sure to get readers excited about their own trip to the farm in fall.

Twelve-year-old Emily Soper avoids her mother's efforts to make her more ladylike by watching her father and his workers build fine carriages in Washington, D.C., but 1908 is a turbulent time and her father's livelihood threatened by racist neighbors and the growing popularity of automobiles. Includes historical note and recipes.

On a three-day stagecoach ride to the big city of Albany, during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Caroline is fascinated by the other travelers, including a charming magician and a beautiful young woman with a sad past, but when Caroline's important package for her father disappears, she must unmask a thief.

Primarily a pictorial essay on the development of the wheel starting with the ancient Egyptians to the present.

Traces the history of the wooden wagons which, for more than one hundred years, served as the major means of transportation for settlers going west.

Sam Peppard, a blacksmith in 1860s Kansas, builds a prairie schooner that sails to Denver, Colorado, powered by wind.

A young boy is joined by his animal friends as he and his little red wagon go up the hill to Grandma's house.