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Big Machines
Catherine Veitch
Hardcover (Heinemann, July 1, 2014)These fabulous books are a must for any young reader with an interest in vehicles and machines. Each book is filled with amazing machines, fun facts, jokes, and age-appropriate text in colorful boxes. Titles in the series cover machines that specialize in flying through the air and space, floating on water, running on tracks, building and construction, driving us around, and coming to our rescue.
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Digger
Parragon
Hardcover (Parragon Plus, Feb. 15, 2003)None
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Tractor's Farmyard Fun
Amelia Marshall
Library Binding (Windmill Books, Aug. 15, 2016)Welcome to the farm, where Tractor plows fields and lifts bales of hay. This isnt the only big machine character featured in this charming fiction title, Harvester and Water Sprayer join Tractor as they complete their daily tasks on the farm. Readers dive into the world of tractors and farm vehicles, learning how to identify them and their parts through bright, busy photographs and an info-vocabulary feature. This text is perfect for beginning readers and for adults and children to share and explore together. With playful rhymes, accessible language, and engaging visuals, this book is sure to become a favorite.
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On The Go
Ant Parker
Board book (Kingfisher, Sept. 30, 2008)Preschoolers are always in motion, and the like their vehicles that way, too. A different vehicle in this eye-catching board book is highlighted on every spread. Age-appropriate text and labels on key parts of the illustrations help kids learn new terms. Zoom, zoom, zoom!
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Emergency! Emergency!
Amelia Marshall
Paperback (Windmill Books, Aug. 15, 2016)From frantic fire trucks zooming down the street to superfast police bikes racing to an accident, emergency vehicles are essential in helping people in danger. In this fantastic picture book, readers race alongside emergency vehicles as they help rescue people in need. Bright, busy photographs and accessible language make it a fun reading experience for beginning readers. Playful rhyming text makes this title a perfect choice for adults and children to read out loud together. An info-vocabulary feature helps readers identify the high-interest topics covered in this book.
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Racing Cars
Clive Gifford, Chris Lyon, Robert Walster
Paperback (Usborne Pub Ltd, June 1, 2005)Simply describes and illustrates the different kinds of racing cars and the tracks upon which they race, how they are constructed, and the crews and services that support them during racing competitions.
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Cranes
Katie Kawa
Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Leveled Readers, Aug. 1, 2011)Cranes can be seen hard at work in big cities every day. There are many different sizes and types of cranes that are each tailored for a specific, and very important, job. With the help of easy-to-follow text, beginning readers learn about the many different kinds of cranesfrom ones that stand tall to ones that can fly. Detailed pictures show these various cranes on the job in a way that makes learning about machines fascinating and fun.
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Bulldozers
Penny Glover, David Glover
Hardcover (Watts Pub Group, Aug. 16, 2004)This is a series for young children that shows big machines in action, explaining the tasks of their different features and how they work. Each book also includes a practical 'make it yourself' activity.
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Big Shiny Machines: Hard At Work
Ant Parker
Board book (Kingfisher, Sept. 30, 2008)Working trucks take center stage in this charming board book. Each spread features a hard-working machine, embellished with shiny silver foil. The text explains the job of each vehicle as well as its parts, introducing new vocabulary.
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Train
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Hardcover (Parragon Book Service Ltd, )None
