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Join in and help the busy mechanic in this playful, interactive flap book! Can you help the busy mechanic to fix the monster truck? Join in and use the flaps to mend the car, put on a new wheel, and fill up the engine. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too! Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Original concept and illustration by Dan Green. The Busy Day series: Introduces the world Boosts motor skills Recommended for children aged 2+ Also available in the Busy Day series: Astronaut Athlete Builder Chef Farmer Firefighter Footballer Train Driver Vet
Elephants driving diggers? Gorillas on scooters? A shark in the bath? A kangaroo ... on the loo? Join in with the fun as an array of improbable creatures tries to be helpful (with hilarious consequences) in this laugh-out-loud picture book. The brilliant follow-up to the bestselling You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus
Campbell Books are coming to the rescue in My First Touch and Find: Emergency. Lift the giant flaps to reveal the touchy-feely emergency vehicles and lots of exciting textures. Feel the bumpy tyres of a police car, the rubbery hull of a coastguard's boat and a smooth and shiny ambulance! Bright and friendly illustrations from Tiago Americo bring the scenes to life and, with something to spot or count on every page, each colourful book in the My First Touch and Find series provides lots of fun for older babies and toddlers. Also available in this tactile series: Dinosaurs, Park, Farm, Zoo, Sea, London, Jungle, Christmas, Baby Animals, Beach and Things That Go.
Simple train facts in a board book shaped like a train
Learn to drive at Horses for Courses! Calling all learner drivers! Meet Jeremy Sparkplug (but you can call him Sparky) and his world-class racing driver assistant, Peggy. They are your expert instructors for all things on four (or more) wheels! Start your engines and watch those corners, they'll teach you everything you need to put the pedal to the metal and feel the need for speed! From the basics (how to go FAST) to tips and tricks (how high can a car fly?), learn all about land vehicles and earn your Golden Horseshoes! On your marks... get set... GO!
This 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.
This bumper activity book is packed with airport scenes to colour and fill with stickers, including passengers dropping off their bags, boarding planes and preparing for take-off. With over 200 stickers of planes, cars and buses, as well as passengers, pilots and airport staff, this is a great way to show children what to expect on a plane flight.
Become an engineer for the day in this interactive STEAM book for vehicle-loving children aged 3+ years. Find out what's gone wrong with the vehicles using the clues and cross-sections to help you, Fix them by spotting the right tools to do the job, and then they can Go! For fans of Usborne's Look Inside Things That Go and Penny Dale's Dinosaur Zoom. Perfect for exploring STEAM and other high-interest topics. Bite-sized text and hands-on learning make this a really fun introduction to things that go. The engaging characters bring each vehicle to life and the book features all of the vehicles that little ones love: trains, diggers, cement mixers, helicopters, aeroplanes and spacecraft. With so much to spot and problems to solve, this great value book will keep littles ones busy for hours and they won't even realise how much they are learning along the way. It is a perfect gift for children who love machines and inspiring the next generation of engineers.
Mater loves to have fun. But he's not always as careful as he should be. Luckily, he has his best buddy, Lightning McQueen, to look out for him! This full-color Little Golden Book features all the characters from the blockbuster movie "Cars "in an action-packed, brand-new story.
Get up-close to the most famous and unique cars ever made! What is a sports car? Just how fast are are they? And how have they changed over the last century? Get the answers to all these questions, and more, with this guide to some of the best cars ever made. Motormania is the perfect series for car-mad kids. Striking photos ensure each car is displayed in all its glory, while top-trump style fact files and detailed 'tech points' highlight the engineering that makes each car special. This series mixes the very latest in car design and engineering with the greatest classics of the past, and is perfect for petrol heads aged 7+.
Take to the skies with this fun, visual miscellany for children who love anything aircraft related! Each double-page spread features a different group of aircraft to explore, such as helpful helicopters, record-breaking planes and soaring spacecraft. Discover some of the more surprising things to have flown - including flying cars and jet packs. Readers can also learn how planes fly, and pretend to be a pilot as they look at a cockpit from a pilot's eye view. Filled with hundreds of different planes, balloons, rockets and other aircraft from around the world, even the most avid young flying fanatic will discover new machines they haven't seen before!
From Lollies Award-winning Michelle Robinson comes this colourful rhyming story following trains, boats and planes in their busy day. But where are they all going? Join three busy transport vehicles as they speed their doggy passengers to the Big Festival! The running isn't smooth, and there's a rainstorm on the way... Trains, boats and planes: which one would you ride? Featuring hundreds of vehicles, all with doggy drivers, and with a wind-down bedtime ending, this book is sure to keep your little one busy spotting every time you read it together. The first book in the series, Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry, has been shortlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize!
Simple garbage truck facts in a board book shaped like a garbage
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Thomas is taking the judge to the train show, but things keep slowing him down First a cow, then a dog, then a town. and a log Will Thomas get to go fast--at last? Can he get the judge to the train show in time? "Go, train, go "
EyeLike Stickers, the bestselling series with over 2 million copies in print, introduces two beloved topics--pirates and trucks. Each book contains 400 full-color photographic stickers that will delight kids and crafters. EyeLike Stickers: Trucks features hundreds of vehicle stickers that will delight construction fans and invite imagination and play. See trucks of all sizes, scales, and types--ice cream trucks, fire trucks, pickups, and garbage trucks. Plus, traffic cones, streetlights, road signs, and equipment like helmets, wrenches, and safety vests will provide hours of fun to kids who are enthusiastic about construction or building. The stickers are durable and reusable; place them on any surface--binders, laptops, phone cases. You can even peel them off and stick them on again without losing the adhesive!
112 fantastic pages crammed with facts about the world's biggest, fastest and most powerful vehicles, from speedboats to monster trucks, as well as rocketships, submarines, supertrucks... and more! Mega Machine Record Breakers is bursting with stats and facts, alongside stunning full-page photographs of the most amazing machines on Earth. From a giant crane that could lift 11 blue whales to a space probe that's travelled 17,000 million kilometres and counting - it's all in here.
The devious diesels of Sodor are up to no good, and Thomas must set things right! The successful "Thomas & Friends" movie "Day of the Diesels" is retold in the classic Little Golden Book format that young boys ages 2-5 will love.
Enter the super-fast and furious world of supercars A World of Supercars is crammed with amazing, up-close photographs of some of the most famous supercars in the world, and all the top facts and figures about their performance. Get up to speed on engine types, aerodynamics, handling and other tech topics, and meet the stars of the supercar world. Perfect reading for petrol-heads aged 9 and up.
What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children aged 5+ years. Lara Hawthorne's beautiful illustrations take the reader on one of the most fascinating journeys that humankind has ever made and one that is common to us all. From ancient Egyptians building the pyramids, to early Polynesian sailors criss-crossing the Pacific Ocean, and astronauts travelling into space, the night sky has guided and inspired people across the world, and throughout time. Now it's your turn to look to the skies and discover the mysteries they hide. For fans of Usborne's Big Books of Stars and Planets and Dr Emily Grossman's World-Whizzing Facts!
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