Transport and machines
Illustrated children’s books about transport and machines
These books are ideal for kids who love machines of all shapes and forms and want to understand how they work. Detailed close-up illustrations provide a captivating visual narrative. This is supported by clear and simple texts. Each title presents a different means of transport, how they were invented, how they have developed over time, all the different models that exist today, as well as those that might exist in the future.
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Building Sites
£11.99
Watch a new building rise up from its foundations. Observe diggers, bulldozers and cranes building a motorway, a railway tunnel and a dam. See carpenters, masons, drivers and plumbers at work.
Boats
£11.99
Watch wooden sailing ships tossed on stormy seas and attacked by pirates. Learn how they are made and how their sails work. Sail on a racing yacht. Explore the seas on small canoes, huge container shi…
My First Encyclopedia of Why?
£14.99
Why is a storm noisy? Why do trees lose their leaves in autumn? Why are there mountains? Why do we have a belly button? What are flamingos pink? Why don’t boats sink? This book provides clear answers…
My First Encyclopedia of How?
£14.99
How do plants grow? How does the water get to your tap? How are babies made? How does an aeroplane fly? How did pirates attack their enemies? This book provides clear and concise answers to many quest…
Tractors
£11.99
Learn all about tractors—those working machines that delight children across the world Tractors have a great fascination for children and this book, with its fine illustrations, demonstrates just why…
Trains
£11.99
See a little seed grow into a mighty tree. It flowers every year and new seeds fall to grow slowly into more trees. Discover the shapes and leaves and fruit of different trees.
Planes
£11.99
Find out people first learned to fly in hot air balloons and in small planes. Visit the cockpit of a large passenger liner.
Firefighting
£11.99
Climb aboard a fire-engine, sirens blaring! See how helicopters fight fires in cities. Watch a Canadair plane drop water on a forest fire.
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