Children’s / Teenage general interest: Transport and vehicles
Capstone Global Library Ltd Buses
Book SynopsisYou need to get to another part of a big city quickly. What can you do? Take the bus! Buses take people where they need to go day after day. They help people get to work, to shops and more. They are hard at work in all types of weather. Young readers will learn about the main parts of buses, how they work and why they are important to the people who ride them.
£7.59
Capstone Global Library Ltd Buses
Book SynopsisYou need to get to another part of a big city quickly. What can you do? Take the bus! Buses take people where they need to go day after day. They help people get to work, to shops and more. They are hard at work in all types of weather. Young readers will learn about the main parts of buses, how they work and why they are important to the people who ride them.
£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd Police Cars
Book SynopsisLights flash and sirens sound! A police car is on its way! Police cars keep our roads and neighbourhoods safe. Police cars are fast and carry equipment for fighting crime. Young readers will find out about police cars, their main parts and how these important vehicles are used.
£7.59
Capstone Global Library Ltd Important Jobs at Airports
Book SynopsisAirports are busy places with people and planes taking off and landing from trips across the world. Who are the people who keep airports running? From security officers to baggage handlers to gift shop employees, many people work together to serve the needs of an airport. Learn about their important work in this book from the Wonderful Workplaces series. There are jobs out there for everyone, and all of them are important!
£13.29
Capstone Global Library Ltd ScoobyDoo Explores Transport
Book SynopsisThe Mystery Machine broke down, and Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang are stranded. It's going to take every type of transportat to get back home, including a bus, train, boat, plane and more! Young readers will delight in using the clues in the text and photos to guess what type of transport the gang is using before turning the page to find out if they are right.
£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd Can Buses Run on Poo
Book SynopsisCars, buses, bicycles and monster trucks - our roads are teeming with amazing vehicles! How do they work, and how do they help us travel? Kids will find the answers to all their questions about vehicles with wheels in this fun, interactive book.
£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd Can Boats Fly
Book SynopsisPaddle boats, tugboats, cruise ships and submarines - our waterways are full of vehicles that float! How do they work, and where can they take us? Kids will find the answers to all their questions about water vehicles in this fun, interactive book.
£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd A Bin Lorrys Day
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£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd A Buss Day
£12.34
Capstone Global Library Ltd A Fire Engines Day
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC First Book of Ships and Boats
Book SynopsisFrom cargo ships to cruise liners and everything in between! Find out all about 30 types of ships and boats - steam boats, speed boats, barges and many more - in this beautifully illustrated and annotated first guide to ships and boats. Includes a fun spotter''s chart to fill in!
£6.23
Capstone Global Library Ltd The Building of Britains Railways
Book SynopsisThe British railway system is the oldest in the world. This fascinating book describes the early days in the British railway industry, from the opening of the first public steam inter-city railway line in 1830 and Robert Stephenson''s Rocket, through to the glory days of the Flying Scotsman and the expansion of the national rail networks in the 1940s to form British Railways. With a biography of George Stephenson the Father of the Railways and his son Robert, a timeline and Track Facts, this book is a must for anyone with an interest in trains and train travel.
£8.54
Hachette Children's Group Infomojis: Cars and Vehicles
Book SynopsisDid you know about the new train that is part vacuum cleaner? Or hydrogen fuel cells, catamarans and pantographs? Well, where have you been! Whether it flies, floats, races or sails, Infomojis: Cars and Vehicles is all about exploring the world of transport in a fun and engaging way. Each book features custom-made 'infomojis' - presenting the information with real personality! So inject fun into facts, and take your young engineer to the next evolution in infographics. Perfect for readers aged 8+.Table of Contents 1: GETTING ABOUT 1: THE WHEEL 1: ON YOUR BIKE! 1: CARS AND TRUCKS 1: TRAINS 1: BOATS AND SHIPS 1: PADDLES AND SAILS 1: SUBMARINES AND SUBMERSIBLES 1: INTO THE AIR 1: LIGHTER THAN AIR 1: PLANES 1: HELICOPTERS 1: THE FUTURE 1: GLOSSARY 1: INDEX
£8.99
Hachette Children's Group Stupendous and Tremendous Technology: Terrific
Book SynopsisWelcome to the jet-set world of transport with this fast-fact-packed exploration of ways to travel. It's the perfect way for children aged 9 plus to brush up on their S.T.E.M. stats and cement what they have learned in class with this fun book.Transport explores the most interesting, incredible and awe-inspiring facts about all kinds of transport in bite-sized chunks of text, so readers won't be overwhelmed with information. Funny illustrations and photos are designed to hold their interest, and help them engage with S.T.E.M. topics.Transport takes a look at the early forms of transport and the invention of the wheel, bicycles, trains, planes, cars, rockets and more! There is also a fun activity to design your own machine of the future for budding STEMsters to try out!The Stupendous and Tremendous Technology series is ideal for all children aged 9+ who are studying S.T.E.M. topics at school or who simply have a fascination with how things work. It covers all the core topics in a fun and accessible way.Title in the series:Clever and Crafty ComputersMega and Mighty MachinesRemarkable and Roving RobotsTerrific and Trailblazing TransportAlso available is Stupendous and Tremendous Science:Ecstatic and Excellent EnergyHappy and Healthy Human BodyPowerful and Pongy PlantsSoaring and Spectacular SpaceTable of Contents 1: Getting moving 1: Brilliant bikes! 1: Steaming ahead 1: Cool cars 1: Driving into the future 1: No wheels! 1: Terrific trains 1: Sail away! 1: Diving deep 1: Up in the air 1: Powerful planes 1: Spectacular spacecraft 1: Astonishing activity: Design a vehicle 1: Glossary 1: Further reading 1: Index
£999.99
Hachette Children's Group Stupendous and Tremendous Technology Terrific and
Book SynopsisWelcome to the jet-set world of transport with this fast-fact-packed exploration of ways to travel. It''s the perfect way for children aged 9 plus to brush up on their S.T.E.M. stats and cement what they have learned in class with this fun book.Transport explores the most interesting, incredible and awe-inspiring facts about all kinds of transport in bite-sized chunks of text, so readers won''t be overwhelmed with information. Funny illustrations and photos are designed to hold their interest, and help them engage with S.T.E.M. topics.Transport takes a look at the early forms of transport and the invention of the wheel, bicycles, trains, planes, cars, rockets and more! There is also a fun activity to design your own machine of the future for budding STEMsters to try out!The Stupendous and Tremendous Technology series is ideal for all children aged 9+ who are studying S.T.E.M. topics at school or who simply have a fascination with how things work. It covers all the core topics in a fun and accessible way.Title in the series:Clever and Crafty ComputersMega and Mighty MachinesRemarkable and Roving RobotsTerrific and Trailblazing TransportAlso available is Stupendous and Tremendous Science:Ecstatic and Excellent EnergyHappy and Healthy Human BodyPowerful and Pongy PlantsSoaring and Spectacular Space
£8.99
Hachette Children's Group So Many Questions: About Transport
Book SynopsisA fun, lively and stylish look at the world through the questions of children.Children have so many questions about the world and this book looks at the world of transport, asking and answering questions to build knowledge of technology and science.So Many Questions is a series of books for inquisitive children aged 7+. Following the curiosity of different characters, each book is filled with questions (and answers) to prompt thinking and build knowledge around each topic covered. Included is a set of copiable game cards to encourage memory skills, further the learning and for fun!Other titles in the series:So Many Questions: About SpaceSo Many Questions: About BuildingsSo Many Questions: About RobotsSo Many Questions: About RainforestsSo Many Questions: About AnimalsSo Many Questions: About OceansSo Many Questions: About PlantsTable of Contents 1: What is transport? 2: How does transport know where to go? 3: How many cars are there in the world? 4: How do you build roads? 5: When was the wheel invented? 6: How do trains work? 7: Why are there so many different types of boats? 8: How do planes stay in the air? 9: How do rockets get into space? 10: Which vehicles help us? 11: What forms of transport can kids use? 12: What will transport be like in the future? 13: Many more questions! 14: Further information 15: Glossary 16: Game cards 17: Index
£8.99
Hachette Children's Group The Wow and How of Transport
Book SynopsisBecome an expert on incredible WOW facts and know the HOW behind them!Transport is AMAZING! Transport can help us to travel the world - WOW! We are able to float, fly, zoom and glide because of HOW transport works.But did you know that some trains can float? Or that cars can be powered by poo? Some submarines can stay submerged for 25 years! That''s a long time to be underwater!Read more amazing facts about transport including some that may challenge what you thought you knew. Find the science behind the facts to understand more about the world we live in.Packed with facts and supported by science, The WOW and HOW series will intrigue and entertain children aged 7+.Find the other titles in the series too: Dinosaurs, Planet Earth, Robots and AI, Space, Weather
£8.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Golden Swift
Book SynopsisDiscover the magical, timeless, bestselling children's adventure series from Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians It’s been a year since Kate and Tom became conductors on the Great Secret Intercontinental Railway, and life has changed completely! Delivering animal passengers to their rightful habitats using their very own secret steam train, The Silver Arrow, is exciting and magical and fulfilling. Until one day a new and mysterious train almost rams them off the track! Its name? The Golden Swift. Kate catches a glimpse of the conductors. They're children, like them, and they're dropping animals off at all the wrong stations! Kate is determined to catch up with their rivals and confront them. Her actions will lead to an adventure bigger than she could have dreamed of, racing through the highlands of Western Scotland, trekking in the Australian outback and diving down deep into the Bering Sea on a magical submarine. Kate will have to discover a whole new way to offer endangered animals safe and lasting homes …Trade ReviewBrimming with imagination and hope for the future * Catherine Doyle, bestselling author of The Storm Keeper's Island on THE SILVER ARROW *There’s nothing so rare as a fantasy that elicits genuine wonder and that uses marvelous things to enrich a child’s appreciation of ordinary ones. So Lev Grossman’s novel The Silver Arrow is something special. Here is an adventure story for 8- to 12-year-olds that’s bursting with life and real feeling, told in a sparkling, informal style that parents will find effortless to read aloud * Wall Street Journal on THE SILVER ARROW *I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best * Ann Patchett on THE SILVER ARROW *Both cozy and inspiring, this eco-fable conveys both grim truths and a defiant call to action * Kirkus on THE SILVER ARROW *This gentle introduction to the complexities of life on this planet is a critical reminder not to despair over the enormity of human responsibility but to face it with joy and marvel at the magic that the world holds. It’s a kind and clear message that all children—and their grownups—should take to heart * Booklist on THE SILVER ARROW *
£7.59
Bellwether Media Monster Trucks
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£12.34
North Star Editions Fighting Climate Change With Science:
Book SynopsisThis informative title examines how transportation contributes to climate change, how improving transportation could help slow the crisis, and the current challenges scientists face. This book also includes a table of contents, an infographic, informative sidebars, a “That’s Amazing” special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3-5 and interest levels of grades 4-7.Trade Review"This series goes beyond general causes and effects to show the impact of climate change and its solutions." —Booklist
£25.59
Bellwether Media Aston Martin Valhalla
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Bellwether Media Ferrari F8 Tributo
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Bellwether Media McLaren 720S
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Ford Mustang Shelby GT350
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc McLaren 12C
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Karts
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Motocross Cycles
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Motocross Racing
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£999.99
Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Rally Car Racing
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Yamaha Dirt Bikes
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Aston Martin DB8 11
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Lamborghini Aventador
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc McLaren 720S
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Porsche 911 GT2
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Chevrolet Camaro Zl1
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Lykan Hyper Sport
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Kaleidoscope Publishing, Inc Porsche Gt3
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Pajama Press Shape Up, Construction Trucks!
Book SynopsisDump Truck, Dump Truck Coming through! I spy a triangle—how about you? It's no secret that toddlers of any gender love big vehicles. Shape Up, Construction Trucks! uses rhyming verse and bright photographs to celebrate this enthusiasm in a unique take on conceptual shape books. Each spread highlights geometric shapes hiding in plain sight on excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and more. And after the toddlers have browsed the pages to their heart's content, a final note to parents offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational learning skills. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, Victoria Allenby's Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a highly visual shape book that digs deep. It earned starred reviews from School Library Journal, which called it, "clear, crisp, clean, and concise," and from Kirkus Reviews, which declared it was "sure to be a hit."Trade ReviewPraise for Shape Up, Construction Trucks! 2022 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book School Library Journal blogger Elizabeth Bird’s “2020 Math Books for Kids” selection 2020 CBC Books “52 Canadian picture books coming out in fall 2020” selection 2021 CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens Selection ★ STARRED REVIEW “Storytime gets a kick in the pants with this jaunty combo of shapes and vehicles....Clear, crisp, clean, and concise—trucks and shapes have never before looked (or sounded) this good.”—Kirkus Reviews Starred Review ★ STARRED REVIEW “Large photos, bold type, and color-specific shapes serve as wonderful aids for young readers to strengthen their identification skills....Sure to be a hit with collections and storytimes.”—School Library Journal Starred Review “Allenby’s book is almost too good for its very simple premise….As the Kirkus review pointed out, you could do a whole storytime and sing this book to the “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” song and make a whole construction production out of it!”—Elizabeth Bird, A Fuse #8 Production “Combining these two concepts – construction and shapes – is a novel idea and is effective at building vocabulary in both areas....Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a simple book executed well.”—CM Magazine “This book covers so many different topics all in one book!...The book allows a parent to increase the difficulty of the book based on the readers reading level at the time….What I love the most about this book is at the end it gives parents different ways to read through the book. That is so helpful for parents who are often looking to get the most for their dollar on every item they purchase for a child.”—Youth Services Book Review “This fun picture books uses the interest that many children have in construction equipment to teach them about shapes....I always love picture books that combine fun and learning and this is a good example.”—Canadian Bookworm “A bright, bold, and fun story…With a terrifically clean and clever layout relying on rhyme and repetition, each page spread focuses on introducing one truck and one shape…Likely to be a hit during read aloud time and/or with readers who adore anything related to trucks or construction vehicles…”—Fab Book Reviews
£7.99
Pajama Press Listen Up! Train Song
Book SynopsisWhere do the trains go? There and back. Let’s sing a train song All down the track. Toddlers and babies love trains and the noises they make. Listen Up! Train Song uses repeating verse and bright photographs to match this enthusiasm with a unique take on the conceptual sound book that is perfect for reading aloud. Each spread uses onomatopoeia to highlight the ting-a ling! of subway door chimes, the chuff-a-gruff-a! of a diesel engine, and more. And after the children have sung along through the colorful pages, a final note to caregivers offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child’s foundational learning skills. Playing with sounds and rhythms is a first step to language development. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That and Shape Up, Construction Trucks!, Victoria Allenby’s Listen Up! Train Song invites its young audience to recognize the songs of the railway and to proudly sing their own. “Train lovers will delight in this book featuring photos of trains….[A] perfect match for story hours about things that go. The back matter provides three developmentally appropriate activities and prompts to increase and extend engagement with children, making this a first purchase for the shelves.” —School Library Journal★ Starred ReviewTrade ReviewPraise for Listen Up! Train Song 2023 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Best Books for Babies list selection 2022 CCBC Spring Best Books for Kids & Teens Selection The Children’s Book Council “Hot off the Press: October 2022” Feature ★ STARRED REVIEW “Train lovers will delight in this book featuring photos of trains. [A] perfect match for story hours about things that go. The back matter provides three developmentally appropriate activities and prompts to increase and extend engagement with children, making this a first purchase for the shelves.” —School Library Journal Starred Review "Locomotive-loving storytimers rejoice! Your newest read-aloud is here....Participation possibilities abound with the consistently inventive train sounds, and the bright and colorful images will be easy to see from across a room....All aboard! The littlest readers with a yen for the rails are bound to bounce with delight."—Kirkus Reviews “The title is well-suited to reading out loud in story time settings as the text is rhythmic and repetitive, yet there is enough variety to interest young listeners from page to page… The text is greatly enhanced by the full-colour photographs which are rich in detail and successfully depict movement.”—CM Magazine “An excellent way to introduce rhyming to young readers. [A] perfect read to pair with a hands-on activity. Similar to other books in this series the author also provides … ways that parents and educators can deepen the learning process with this book.” —Youth Services Book Review “Calling all Train fans! This sturdy board book is filled with vibrant photographs of different types of trains…This book starts as a fun read for train lovers and can be extended to a vocabulary or musical exercise. It is a great addition to preschool books about trains.”—YA Books Central “Allenby’s book encourages participation and imagination, singing, and practicing rhyming… a solid, participatory read, and a highly recommended companion title for any young readers who love transportation or train books, or who have loved Shape Up, Construction Trucks!.”—Fab Book Reviews “With kids often fascinated by trains, this book is sure to appeal to many.”—Canadian Bookworm “A story to share aloud, teaching the importance of rhyme and rhythm in poetry while having fun with onomatopoeia.”—The International Educator “With bright colors and large crisp photographs of trains in all sorts of situations, this is sure to be a hit with little ones… This book would work great in a transportation or train themed storytime.”—Alissa Tsuparikos, Goodreads “Excellent storytime book for young children…Close up pictures show the train parts being talked about in each rhyme, helping young children visualize just what makes each noise.”—Andrea, Goodreads “Absolutely gorgeous photo illustrations that the younger set and grownups too will love…. Great use of onomatopoeia with train sounds.”—Amanda, Goodreads
£8.09
Pajama Press Look Up High! Things that Fly
Book SynopsisLook up High! Jet planes fly. How? Where? Look up there! The jet plane soars across the sky. Helicopters, gliders, and planes—oh my! Preschoolers never get tired of cool flying machines. Indulge their love for things with wings (and a few without) with bright photographs and jaunty verse that makes it easy for pre-readers to chime in. They won’t even notice the subtle language lesson in prepositions as the hot air balloon drifts between the mountains, the water bomber swoops through the smoke, and the space station orbits around the Earth. With Look Up High! Things That Fly, Victoria Allenby adds another kid-tastic instalment to the Big, Little Concept Books collection that has already graced story times with the Mathical Book Prize honor book Shape Up, Construction Trucks!, the sound-celebrating Listen Up! Train Song, and Let’s Add Up!, where addition meets imagination. Like its predecessors, the book features a closing note to caregivers with age-appropriate enrichment activities to extend both the learning and the fun. But they needn’t worry about handing the whole thing over to their children, since the padded cover, rounded corners, and extra-sturdy paper of this Toddler Tough format can endure many a rough reading. Now spread your wings and ask yourself: How would YOU zoom across the sky? Trade ReviewPraise for Look Up High! Things That Fly 49th Shelf Fall 2023 “Most Anticipated Books for Young Readers” Selection 2023 Children’s Book Council “August Hot Off the Press” Feature “A strong addition to any library serving toddlers, but could also be used to support early readers in learning basic grammatical ideas.”—School Library Journal “An invitation to fledgling readers to admire various types of flying craft (while practicing their prepositions)….well designed to put wind beneath the wings of children working to get their minds around language and parts of speech. A short flight, soon past—but with plenty of lift.”—Kirkus Reviews “The rhyming text makes it easy to follow along with the book, while allowing young readers to memorize some of the text….Great for any early learning library whether preschool, kindergarten or early elementary…. Highly recommend it!”—CLCD – Children’s Literature “I hope you have room on your shelf for this one. Look Up High! Things That Fly has beautiful colour photos…The rhymes are repetitive, changing only the name of the thing that flies. Soon young readers or listeners will be able to fill in the name of the flying thing and join in the rhyme…Highly Recommended.”—CM Review “Combines young children’s fascination with aircraft with learning prepositions….discussing objects in relation to something else was one of the most difficult things I worked with preschoolers to understand, so I love this book and wish I had found it sooner!”—YA Books Central “The photographs and repetitive words encourage language learning….Well-chosen verbs followed by meaningful prepositions create an easy lesson for little ones.”—Sal's Fiction Addiction “In this padded board book, toddlers can look up into the sky to discover airships….I like that there were more air vehicles than an airplane.”—BookTime
£12.34
Hachette Children's Group Amelia Earhart: Little Guides to Great Lives
Book SynopsisThe first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart was a superstar of aviation in the 1920s and 1930s and a pioneer of women’s rights. Her disappearance in 1937, while attempting to fly around the world, remains an unsolved mystery. From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Little Guides to Great Lives is a brand new series of small-format guides introducing children to the most inspirational figures from history in a fun, accessible way. Launching with Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Nelson Mandela and Amelia Earhart, Little Guides to Great Lives tells the stories of the most amazing people from all over the world and across history, with colourful illustrations and fresh design to bring their incredible stories to life.Trade Review"The book shows that Earhart is famous not just because of her mysterious disappearance but also because of the many things she accomplished during her lifetime." -- GeekDad
£8.54
Child's Play International Ltd Can you choo choo like a Train?
Book SynopsisCan you choo-choo like a train? Whoop like a police van? Or chug like a tractor? Join in the fun as we copy the sounds of familiar vehicles. Perfect for developing observational skills, encouraging physical activity and developing vocabulary.
£6.23
BookLife Publishing Transport
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered how we have so many amazing inventions? Many inventions just started out as an idea. This series explores some of the most important inventions throughout history and takes a look at the brilliant people whose big ideas gave us lots of the things that we take for granted today.
£999.99
Anness Publishing Find Out About Flight
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating fact file and learn-it-yourself project book. It is an accessible and lively introduction to every aspect of flight, including wings and lift, air resistance, gliding and soaring, in both machines and the animal kingdom. It features 18 hands-on experiments to help you really find out for yourself - make a miniature plane and a hot-air balloon, construct a kite, and build models to demonstrate how birds fly and how jet engines work. It features more than 240 pictures include step-by-step photographs and explanatory diagrams. It is ideal for 8- to 12-year-olds for home or school use. For both humans and animals, wings are the quickest way to get around. A peregrine falcon's dramatic dive makes it the swiftest creature on Earth. A jumbo jet's engine makes it ten times faster than a boat or a train. This exciting and practical science book explains how insects, birds, bats and machines are able to fly, how wings and engines work, what flight is like in Space, and what the future may hold. Easy-to-do projects using everyday objects allow young scientists to discover the fantastic facts for themselves. You can see how a propeller operates and how a rocket blasts off into the heavens. You can make a fun frisbee, a model parachute, and turn a simple balloon into a hovercraft! Detailed photographs and diagrams accompany all the projects and illustrate the various aspects of flight, carrying young readers along on a thrilling journey through the world of air travel.
£5.99
Anness Publishing Exploring Science: What Is Flight?
Book SynopsisThis title comes with 18 easy-to-do experiments and 240 exciting pictures. You can uncover the flight techniques of insects, birds and other flying creatures. You can explore the science that humans have developed to enable them to fly. You can find out how a jumbo jet carrying 500 passengers can stay in the air, and how a hummingbird can hover over a flower with pinpoint precision. Exciting experiments and inside-view diagrams explain the mechanics of drag, lift and thrust. Dramatic photographs and expert text capture the power and mystery of flight. It is an ideal reference source, for use at home or at school. You can follow the history of flying, from the first (disastrous) human attempts to soar like birds, to the creation of a supersonic airliner that flies faster than a bullet. You can explore the techniques of nature's most skilled flyers - from the prehistoric pterosaur to the long-distance albatross. You can share the excitement of the first human flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright, and the challenge of flying a round-the-world hot-air balloon. Step-by-step experiments and projects - including making a balloon jet, a kite and a rocket - will help you to understand how flight works.
£7.59
Christopher Vine Peter's Railway Grandpa Goes Bananas
Book SynopsisA railway adventure in a transport museum. The children spend the night at a railway museum where they all agree that it's a great shame that nothing works: The exhibits are all lifeless. That is until Grandpa has one of his "excellent" ideas! Why not bring one of the monster locomotives back to life? Just for one day, the museum is filled with smoke, steam and noise...and policemen!
£5.35
Christopher Vine Peter's Railway Rain, Steam and Speed
Book SynopsisA railway adventure on the farm. The children are riding on the little railway when they get caught in a rainstorm. While drying by the fire, Grandpa tells them two stories from the old days on the railways - both stories are true. Drive Bill Hoole offers two girls a ride in the cab of his steam locomotive: They have been caught in a storm and the heat of the cab will dry them out. They end up stealing the train!
£5.35
Christopher Vine Peter's Railway Activity Book
Book SynopsisOur new Activity Book is packed full of trains, colouring and engineering puzzles. Some of the activities are easy, others are more challenging. There’s something for everyone: colouring, maths, crossword, anagrams, spot the dangers, join the dots, brain teasers, terrible train jokes, and a fabulous, new Spot the Difference! 32 pages of easy to follow activities, some more challenging than others but all great fun, combining learning, problem solving and creativity. The colouring pages bring the Peter’s Railway books to life and you can be as creative as you like! Beware the “Most Dangerous Railway Station in the World” see if you can spot all the dangerous things that shouldn’t be happening!! Keep the kids busy with this great new activity book from Peter’s Railway.
£6.78
