How cool is a supersonic jet that can zip, dip, and zoom through the air? Or a helicopter that hovers as still as a hummingbird? In this 32-page beginning reader, a real-life pilot introduces kids to the greatest planes that ever flew. Enticing photographs and fascinating facts ensure that a child’s natural curiosity is both inspired AND satisfied. Like each book in this successful series, Pl…
Who can resist trucks? They’re loud. They’re complicated. They have wheels twice as tall as your dad. Trucks! has many cool images of the trucks we know and love. There’s also curiosities like the $3 million mining truck that’s "like driving a house." This Level 1 text is revved up with sound words and images to steer young readers on the road to reading success.
Looking at the technology all around us-and then explaining how it works, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lifts the hood of a car engine, gets inside a TV set, and discovers the power of invisible microwaves. With close-ups, cutaways, and diagrams bringing the technology to life, and timelines illustrating the development of inventions, challenging curiosity quizzes and fascinating facts, the …
A science book about basic machines; how they work and how we use them.
A science book about different machines that help us cook food.
A science book about how we change to achieve what we need.
What does the mighty machines do to help people made a building?
One wrong move can spell disaster. Yet, Submariners love their work! Journey under the sea and find out why?