Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

"Simple text and supportive images introduce young readers to diggers. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

The first step of any construction project is preparing the site for building. The job requires earth movers to rip, dig, level, and move ground. This children's title, grounded in facts, lets young readers dig into learning about the action-packed work of earth movers.

"...Showcases small projects to build with LEGO Technic gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. You'll find hundreds of clever, buildable mechanisms, each one demonstrating a key building technique or mechanical principle. You'll learn to build four-wheel drive cars, adorable walking 'bots, steerable tanks, robotic inchworms, and cars that can follow the edge of a table! Each model includes a list of required parts and colorful photographs...

"When the Invention Hunters, a group of globe-trotting invention collectors, visit a construction site in their flying museum, a boy helps them by explaining how simple machines like levers, pulleys, and cranks work"--

Contains facts about and photographs of mechanical and moving things, such as cyborgs, monster trucks, and space shuttles.

"Simple text and full color photographs introduce young readers to skid steer loaders. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

Simple text and photographs present an introduction to bulldozers.

"Simple text and supportive images introduce young readers to wheel loaders. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by the publisher.

In the vast grain fields of early America the size of a farmer's crop was limited by how quickly the grain could be harvested. For some crops, the transition to a mechanical harvest in the early 20th century was simple. Modern cutting and threshing operations have reached a new level of speed and efficiency.