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New Way Things Work David MaCaulay Guiding the reader through the complicated world of digital machines, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this book covers the latest technological developments. Each principle is explained with the help of a rather slow-witted, wooly mammoth. |
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Pyramid David Macaulay |
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How a House Is Built Gail Gibbons Describes how the surveyor, heavy machinery operators, carpenter crew, plumbers, and other workers build a house. |
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Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections Stephen Biesty This picture book shows readers what goes on inside 18 of the world's largest buildings and machines. Each illustration is based on the actual plans or architects' drawings so that readers know they are looking inside real structures - not a figment of some artist's imagination. Two of these illustrations are printed on fold-out pages which are a metre wide. Packed around the cross-sections are facts about each diagram which include a medieval castle, a galleon, a coal mine, helicopter, steam train and space shuttle. |
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Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works Matthys Levy, Richard Panchyk How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls. Engineering the City tells the fascinating story of infrastructure as it developed through history along with the growth of cities. Experiments, games, and construction diagrams show how these structures are built, how they work, and how they affect the environment of the city and the land outside it.
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My Little Red Toolbox Stephen T. Johnson Caldecott Honor illustrator Stephen T. Johnson's My Little Red Toolbox has all the tools a child needs to hammer, drill, and have hours and hours of fun! Each spread features a sturdy working tool that's easy to remove and great to play with. Kids will even learn about colors, shapes, and counting, too!
My Little Red Toolbox features seven cardboard tools that really work!
A pencil and an erasable slate, for drawing up plans
A ruler to measure things
A saw that makes noise when it cuts wood
A drill with movable parts
A screwdriver and screws that turn
A wrench and bolts that turn
A hammer for pounding nails
Product Safety/Choking Hazard: Contains Small Parts |
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The Road Builders (Viking Kestrel Picture Books) B.G. Hennessy Captures the sights and sounds of the busy construction workers and the bulldozers, cement mixers, cranes and backhoes they use to build a road. It is intended that children recognize these machines and become fascinated by what each one contributes to the road-building process. |
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Inclined Planes and Wedges (Early Bird Physics) Roseann Feldmann, Sally M. Walker |
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Amazing Buildings Philip Wilkinson Looks inside some of the world's most amazing buildings including the Colosseum in Rome, the Alhambra in Spain, the Imperial Palace in Bejing, the Houses of Parliament in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Skydrome in Toronto. The book features cut-away illustrations to give readers an idea of how the building is laid-out, with peel-back pages to show the interior of these buildings. |
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TRUCKS (BOARD) (Board Books) Harry McNaught Big trucks and little trucks, trucks at work, on the road--everywhere! Children will love learning about those big machines in this colorful book. Reissue. |