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Machines at Work

ISBN: 069401107X

Featured Book Listings: Board Books
Category: Transportation
Age Groups: Birth-2
Author(s): Byron Barton


During a busy day at the construction site, the workers use a variety of machines to knock down a building and begin constructing a new one.

My First Truck

ISBN: 0789499045

Featured Book Listings: Board Books
Category: Transportation
Age Groups: Birth-2


A first word and picture book of trucks, tractors, diggers, and fire engines to increase a child's vocabulary.

SteamSmoke and Steel

ISBN: 0881069698

Category: Transportation
Age Groups: Ages 6-8
Author(s): Patrick O'Brien
Tags: history , Trains


This in an excellent book for a budding reader who loves trains.

It has great illustrations and descriptions about steam engines. Kids will easily get into this book and greatly enjoy it.

The Polar Express

ISBN: 0395389496

Age Groups: Ages 3-5 , Ages 6-8 , Ages 9-12


A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

How Big Is It?

ISBN: 0439918081

Featured Book Listings: Summer Reading List
Age Groups: Ages 3-5 , Ages 6-8
Author(s): Ben Hillman


Describes different kinds of very large objects, discussing the Great Pyramid at Giza, the reticulated python, the redwood, the Arecibo radio telescope, and may more amazing items.

Dig Dig Digging

ISBN: 805079858

Category: Transportation
Age Groups: Birth-2 , Ages 3-5
Author(s): Margaret Mayo
Illustrator(s): Alex Ayliffe


This fun book introduces kids to big machines through simple and fun rhymes. The book features fire engines, dump trucks, and bulldozers.

That's Not My Train

ISBN: 0794521681

Category: Transportation
Age Groups: Birth-2
Author(s): Fiona Watt
Tags: Trains , texture
Illustrator(s): Rachel Wells


This is a really fun book for young children. The book is narrated by a little mouse who looks at a different train on each page and discovers that it's not his train.



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