Text and photographs describe pickup trucks and how they work.

On their way to the beach for a picnic the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.

Shows how trains haul cars and freight across the country and get people where they need to go each day.

Beginning with the first primitive form of roller, the author leads the reader through the 5,000 year history of land transportation.

Provides an introduction to freight trains and how they work, including information on their parts, what they do, and the history of these trains.

The reader is asked to guess what Roxanne must leave behind (ball, umbrella, book, turtle, or baby) as she tries various means of transportation to get to the beach.

Jumping, spinning, twisting, turning, racing-the power is in your hands. Make bots that jump and spin, build a rubber band racer and a bottle boat, power a boat and a car with air. Make machines that move!

The longest ship ever built, the heaviest digger and the largest aeroplane, the world's first working motorcar, and its most expensive one. What machines like these have in common is that they all say a lot about the inventiveness and imagination of the people who conceived and created them. Some of them are useful, others are just a bit of fun, but the best ones are truly magnificent, and fascinating to discover. Designed to drive faster, fly higher,...