Lucy: The Diamond Fairy (Rainbow Magic: The Jewel Fairies, No. 7)
by Daisy Meadows
from Scholastic Paperbacks
Jack Frost is causing trouble in Fairyland again! This time, he's stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania's crown. Without them, all the fairy magic in Fairyland is fading fast!
Can Rachel and Kirsty help Lucy the Diamond Fairy find the final jewel? Or will Fairyland's special magic be lost forever?
Cars & Trucks (Scholastic First Discovery)
by Scholastic
from Scholastic Reference
Scholastic First Discovery: Cars & Trucks, with its fresh cover design, kid-friendly paperback format, and larger trim size offers young readers an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand introduction to automobiles. Full-color, highlighted illustrations are accompanied by brief, simple text full of fun facts. Four transparent acetate pages in this title add a fun visual kick.
Critical acclaim for the original First Discovery series includes:
"Each of the titles in this outstanding series is dramatic enough to enthrall even nonreading youngsters." -- Parenting magazine
"Visually delightful...the simple narration is informative and impressive." -- School Library Journal
First Discovery is one of the great phenomena of children's publishing -- often copied and never equaled -- with over 42 million copies sold worldwide.
What Makes Day and Night (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by Franklyn M. Branley
from HarperTrophy
`Accompanied by NASA photographs and Dorros's colorful, lively drawings, the text explains the Earth's rotation in clear and simple terms. An experiment using a lamp as the `sun' further clarifies the principles introduced.' —BL.
Big Book of Tractors (John Deere)
by DK Publishing
from DK CHILDREN
From the giant tractors on a farm to the ride-on mowers down the block, Big Book of Tractors uses close-up photographs to show what makes tractors go and how they use amazing attachments to plow, plant, and harvest their way across the fields.
The Construction Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta
from Charlesbridge Publishing
Dig Dig Digging
by Margaret Mayo
from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
"Diggers are good at dig, dig, digging,
scooping up the earth and lifting and tipping.
They make huge holes with their dig, dig, digging.
They can work all day."
Trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters-they all like to work hard. But after a long, happy day of beep-beeping and vroom-vrooming, even the busiest engines need to rest. This bright, bouncy, noise-filled book brings together all the vehicles that children adore.
Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Step into Reading)
by Monica Kulling
from Random House Books for Young Readers
It’s 1901 and Henry Ford wants to build a car that everyone can own. But first he needs the money to produce it. How will he get it? He enters a car race, of course! Readers will love this fast-paced, fact-based story!
Dazzling Diggers (Amazing Machines)
by Tony Mitton
from Kingfisher
Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively picture book. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistable rhymes!
Robot (DK Eyewitness Books)
by DK Publishing
from DK CHILDREN
Take a detailed look at the fascinating world of robots - from the earliest single-task machines to the advanced intelligence of robots with feelings. Young readers will be amazed to learn all that robots can do: perform delicate surgical operations, clean city sewers, work as museum tour guides, or even battle each other in combat. Find out how humans have created these mechanical minds and bodies.
Look What Came From China!
by Miles Harvey
from Franklin Watts
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