Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Technology - Machinery & Tools

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Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics, and are for children who are ready to read on their own.

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More fabulous huge machines for the kids who love them.

A bulldozer is often a child's first construction toy. This book shows the real machine hard at work, carving roads, clearing land, ripping rock, demolishing buildings, mining, quarrying, plowing snow and working for the military. This book describes the many different blades and attachments and how a bulldozer's design keeps it from falling over or tipping backward. The photographs also show the many sizes of bulldozer, from the mammoth crawler to the (relatively) tiny calf bulldozer used in mining.

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More fabulous huge machines for the kids who love them.

Children always get excited watching cranes reach for the heights. Knowing that one person is perched high atop the crane only adds to the thrill and sense of adventure. Cranes are used for lifting almost any heavy load and moving it to a height. They are used to make buildings, bridges and ships. Some are used to stack containers onto ships, trains and trucks. A floating crane might be used for salvaging a sunken ship, and an aerial crane is a specially fitted helicopter that can rescue someone or drop emergency...

More fabulous huge machines for the kids who love them.

Loaders easily move material around job sites -- no matter how big or difficult it seems. This book reminds children how often they actually see loaders. In the city loaders are used as snowplows or to move building materials and tools. In the country a farmer might drive a loader down a road with bales of straw in its bucket. A highway road crew uses a loader to move gravel, and loaders with a fork attachment are used in factories, warehouses and lumberyards.

The Mighty Machines series features...

Discover different types of trucks in this top-selling padded board book that encourages tiny fingers to explore through tactile learning and develop fine motor skills while building an early language foundation.

Filled with real-life photography featuring touch-and-feel textures, Baby Touch and Feel: Trucks is the perfect size for small hands. Its padded cover can withstand biting and throwing while its thick sturdy board pages won't tear. With simple text and clear images, your baby will begin learning color and shape recognition. Visit a fire truck, look at a cement mixer,...