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Books in Amazing Machines series

  • Amazing Machines First Concepts: Sounds

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Board book (Kingfisher, Sept. 15, 2015)
    What goes "VROOM," "BEEP," and "SCREECH"?For fans of the bestselling Amazing Machines series, this is a perfect way for young children to learn all about noises in a colorful, engaging way, with their favorite machines!
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  • Patrolling Police Cars

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Board book (Kingfisher, May 14, 2019)
    Patrol the streets with some cool animal drivers in this cheerful picture book all about police cars. Lively wordplay, vibrant art, plus a visual dictionary, make this title a must-have for bookshelves everywhere. This book is filled with humorous rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton, which perfectly complements Ant Parker's bold, bright illustrations. A picture dictionary identifying police car parts builds vocabulary and makes learning about police cars exciting and fun.
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  • Excavators

    Quinn M. Arnold

    Paperback (Creative Paperbacks, March 13, 2018)
    From the heavy blades of bulldozers to the hauling bodies of dump trucks, heavy machinery and equipment have long been used in construction and demolition alike. Appealing to future builders, mechanics, and engineers, this new series explores the continued use of six Amazing Machines. Detailed photos and STEM-appropriate text examine the featured machine's parts, functions, variations, and worksites. Each book also includes a labeled pictorial diagram of variations of the machine. A basic exploration of the parts, variations, and worksites of dump trucks, the hauling and dumping machines. Also included is a pictorial diagram of variations of dump trucks.
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  • Amazing Machines Cool Cars Activity Book

    Tony Mitton, Editors of Kingfisher, Ant Parker

    Paperback (Kingfisher, Feb. 21, 2017)
    This interactive early learning activity book is packed full of airplanes! Airplanes that are are fast, big, and heavy. Airplanes that can zoom and soar and go whoosh through the skies. Airplanes with wings and wheels and controls to carry people across the world. Preschool children will love the activity pages-- there are counting, matching, drawing, writing, coloring, and lots of other activities, as well as two pages of stickers to use. Inside the front and back covers are press-out play pieces that little fingers can use to build their very own amazing airplane!
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  • Backhoes

    Quinn M. Arnold

    Paperback (Creative Paperbacks, March 13, 2018)
    From the heavy blades of bulldozers to the hauling bodies of dump trucks, heavy machinery and equipment have long been used in construction and demolition alike. Appealing to future builders, mechanics, and engineers, this new series explores the continued use of six Amazing Machines. Detailed photos and STEM-appropriate text examine the featured machine's parts, functions, variations, and worksites. Each book also includes a labeled pictorial diagram of variations of the machine. A basic exploration of the parts, variations, and worksites of backhoes, the digging and hauling machines. Also included is a pictorial diagram of variations of backhoes.
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  • Amazing Machines First Concepts: Colors

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Board book (Kingfisher, Sept. 15, 2015)
    Red diggers, blue cars, yellow trucks, and more!For fans of the bestselling Amazing Machines series, this is a perfect way for young children to learn all about colors in a bright and engaging way, with their favorite zippy machines!
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  • Concrete Mixers

    Quinn M Arnold

    Library Binding (Creative Educ, Feb. 1, 2018)
    From the heavy blades of bulldozers to the hauling bodies of dump trucks, heavy machinery and equipment have long been used in construction and demolition alike. Appealing to future builders, mechanics, and engineers, this new series explores the continued use of six Amazing Machines. Detailed photos and STEM-appropriate text examine the featured machines parts, functions, variations, and worksites. Each book also includes a labeled pictorial diagram of variations of the machine. A basic exploration of the parts, variations, and worksites of concrete mixers, the cement-mixing machines. Also included is a pictorial diagram of variations of concrete mixers.
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  • Cool Cars

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Hardcover (Kingfisher, June 16, 2005)
    From luxury limousines to speedy sports cars, Amazing Machines: Cool Cars features a wide variety of automobiles-- all driven by kooky animal characters. Lively rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton perfectly complements Ant Parker's bold, bright illustrations. A picture dictionary identifying car parts builds vocabulary and makes learning about cars even more fun.
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  • Amazing Machines First Concepts: Numbers

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Board book (Kingfisher, Sept. 15, 2015)
    1 airplane, 2 rockets―how many cars can you count?For fans of the bestselling Amazing Machines series, this is a perfect way for young children to learn all about numbers in a colorful and engaging way, with their favorite machines!
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  • Busy Boats

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 15, 2005)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Rhyming text introduces a variety of ships and boats as they cross lakes, seas, and rivers with cargoes of merchandise or people.
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  • Patrolling Police Cars

    Tony Mitton, Ant Parker

    Hardcover (Kingfisher, Oct. 16, 2018)
    Patrol the streets with some cool animal drivers in this cheerful picture book all about police cars. Lively wordplay, vibrant art, plus a visual dictionary, make this title a must-have for bookshelves everywhere. This book is filled with humorous rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton, which perfectly complements Ant Parker's bold, bright illustrations. A picture dictionary identifying police car parts builds vocabulary and makes learning about police cars exciting and fun.
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  • Dump Trucks

    Quinn M. Arnold

    Paperback (Creative Paperbacks, March 13, 2018)
    From the heavy blades of bulldozers to the hauling bodies of dump trucks, heavy machinery and equipment have long been used in construction and demolition alike. Appealing to future builders, mechanics, and engineers, this new series explores the continued use of six Amazing Machines. Detailed photos and STEM-appropriate text examine the featured machine's parts, functions, variations, and worksites. Each book also includes a labeled pictorial diagram of variations of the machine. A basic exploration of the parts, variations, and worksites of excavators, the big digging machines. Also included is a pictorial diagram of variations of excavators.
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