Books, Children's Books, Obsessions, Heavy Machinery

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Richard Scarry
Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (Giant Little Golden Book)
by Golden Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-06-01)

Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
by Sandpiper (Paperback)

CHILDRENS BOOKS & MUSIC; Early Childhood; Books

The Wheels on the Bus
by Dutton Juvenile (Hardcover)

Virginia Lee Burton
Katy and the Big Snow (Vol 2)
by Sandpiper (Paperback)

Annie Cobb
Wheels! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
by Random House Books for Young Readers (Paperback) (Release Date: 1996-02-20)

Train wheels. Plane wheels. Gear wheels. Rear wheels. What if there wereNO wheels? How would people go?

B. G. Hennessy
Road Builders
by Puffin (Paperback)

Construction Zone
by HarperCollins (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1997-04-15)

Crisp, clear, full-color photographs show all the fascinating machines and earthmovers found at a construction site. Even the very youngest readers will want to put on hard hats!"The roaring power of 13 construction machines is captured in clear, brilliantly colored photographs." -- Booklist

Judy Hindley
Big Red Bus, The
by Candlewick (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1995-09-04)

Percolating rhythms, clever sound effects, and exuberant pictures help evoke a truly catastrophically funny traffic jam as a bus gets stuck in a hole, leading to cumulative hilarity.

Building Machines and What They Do
by Candlewick (Paperback) (Release Date: 1994-06-06)

How does a cement truck mix cement? How are garbage trucks emptied? These are just two of the questions curious children are likely to ask about the vehicles they see around them every day. Fortunately, for those of us who don't know everything (or anything!) about such topics, Dereck Radford has assembled an impressive variety of facts about building machines. The brief text and realistically rendered machines—operated by bustling animal characters—are sure to capture the attention of truck fans everywhere.

Claude Delafosse
Construction (First Discovery Books)
by Scholastic (Spiral-bound)

Follows the construction processes of such projects as a building, a naval ship, a subway, and an expressway, introducing young readers to such facts as how old buildings are torn down and how tunnels are made.

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