Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes


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Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes displays exciting vehicles that float, fly or speed across the land, including the record breakers - the fastest, largest, longest and costliest modes of transportation ever to zoom, sail or soar. Explore over 1,000 different vehicles and discover fun facts and figures. This kid's encyclopedia is the fastest route to learning about the entire history of all modern modes of transportation, from the first wheel to the latest hybrids. Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes is the perfect gift for young transport enthusiasts, who are revved up and ready to read.




Cars, Trains and Planes


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Cars, Trains, and Planes chronicles the history of mechanized transportation in awesome detail, profiling the thousands of machines that have carried people around the world over the last two hundred years. This stunning book offers a lavishly illustrated photographic collection of the world's most incredible popular vehicles. Including over 2,500 different machines from the iconic to the unexpected, detailing their specifications and important features. See everything from the first steam engines to the newest high-speed intercity trains; the Model T Ford to the latest hybrid and electric cars; and the Wright Flyer to stealth fighter jets and huge passenger planes. Cars, Trains, and Planes is a celebration of the amazing machines that keep the world on the move.




How to Draw Planes, Trains and Boats


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With the help of this guide, children and other beginning artists will enjoy learning how to draw 30 different forms of transportation — most of them composed of simple shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations show how to put these shapes together to form everything from a canoe, biplane, and antique locomotive to an ocean liner, seaplane, and passenger car of a modern train. Fun to draw, these pictures will also help youngsters and budding artists understand the basics of shape, form, and dimension. Blank practice pages are included.




The Cars, Trucks, Trains, and Planes Pre-K Workbook


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Start your engines and get ready for preschool and kindergarten with the fun and informative activities and worksheets in this educational workbook filled with construction vehicles, cars, boats, planes, trains, and more. Kids from ages 3 to 5 will learn letter and number tracing, shape recognition, counting, sight word practice, and much, much more while having a blast doodling and coloring excavators, dump trucks, tractor trailers, race cars, jet planes, and bullet trains. Plus, by filling out these activity pages and worksheets, your child will practice motor function skills on top of learning the alphabet, counting to 20, and more. After completing the exercises in this activity book, your child will be that much more prepared for the next grade level, having practiced the most important kindergarten readiness skills.




Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws


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A travel essay of a recent visit to India, which reveals, with humor and insight, the tensions and contradictions facing the emerging world power. In particular, the book explores the roles of women and children in India today and includes discussions with experts on this topic, providing insight into this important and often neglected issue.







Cars Visual Encyclopaedia


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A highly illustrated guide to more than a century of automobile design and engineering. Features all of the most famous marques and models, from everyday types such as VW Beetle and Toyota Prius, to supercars such as the Aston Martin DB5 and Bugatti Veyron.




Boats, Planes and Trains


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A perfect, interactive first concepts board book all about things that go! Follow the trails of trundling tractors, flashing fire engines and powerful planes. Follow touch-and-feel train tracks and chunky tire treads to meet all kinds of vehicles. With exciting touch & feel textures and lift-the-flaps on every page, learn about all kinds of vehicles!




Mega Machines


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Big Book of Cars


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Text and cut-out photographs present the features and performance of various cars, including the Corvette, Volkswagen Beetle, and Cadillac.