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Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Children love machines! Especially big ones! Big ones in the dirt! Construction Machines is a new take on the world of big machines. It looks at a specific job that needs doing, then provides information on the right machine to do it, whether a digger, steam roller, excavator, loader or bulldozer. The book includes sections on quarrying stone, laying a road, building a skyscraper, digging a tunnel, and demolishing a building. Each section begins...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
"Diggers, dump trucks, rollers, and more -- it takes a lot of big, noisy machines to build a school! Every young child who has ever gawked at a building site will gravitate to this exciting new entry in the kid-pleasing Construction Crew series. Wham-a-hammer, bam-a-slamma! The construction crew is back -- but what are they building this time?"--provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Full-color photographs feature construction vehicles. Geometric shapes discernable on the vehicles are digitally highlighted for easy identification, and rhyming text names both the shape and the truck. A final spread directed at caregivers shares age-appropriate enrichment activities for toddlers learning to identify shapes. On sturdy stiff paper pages."--
Author
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Construction equipment has long been a favorite of little readers and D is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a fun backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction up close and personal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This sturdy board book will keep babies and toddlers busy as they learn to count down from ten to one while spending the day on a construction site, where they'll meet such machines as bulldozers, rollers, forklifts and concrete mixers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What can we spot on the construction site today? Shine a light behind the page and see ... From the crane driver high up in his cab and engineers digging deep underground, to bulldozers and all kinds of machines, each page-turn will take you behind the scenes of a busy construction site.
15) Bulldozers
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pushing ahead and moving anything in its way, the bulldozer is a bladed beast. And a blade is often not the only sharp tool on this machine. A claw-like ripper can pierce through hard ground. This elementary title will push students to grow as readers.
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