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Books : Children's Books : Science, Nature & How It Works : Engineering

• The New Way Things Work

  David Macaulay

  
  
   

• City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

  David Macaulay

  
  Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
  
   

• Big Frank's Fire Truck (Pictureback(R))

  Leslie Mcguire

  
  Illustrated in full color. Ride along with Big Frank and the rest of the crew as they race to the scene of an accident, inspect the local KwikShop, demonstrate fire safety at Niceview Elementary School, and battle a raging brush fire! In between calls, hang out at the firehouse with Big Frank and the gang. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friends.  
  
   

• Where Does the Garbage Go? (Let's read-and-find-out science books)

  Paul Showers

  
  Discusses the growing garbage and trash problem in the United States and its possible solutions.
  
   

• Fire! Fire!

  Gail Gibbons

  
  Views fire fighters fighting fires in the city, in the country, in the forest, and on the waterfront.
  
   

• The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing

  Bill Phillips

  
  Five Star Review on Amazon.com (for previous edition):

  "This is a great catch-all book about locksmithing."

  
  *The "bible" of the locksmithing field has just been updated - making it even more accessible to students, apprentices, and professionals alike
  *Covers everything from keying and lock picking, to auto locks, lockmaking, and servicing safes
  *Includes over 100 new sample questions to help study for certification exams

  
   

• The Art of Construction: Projects and Principles for Beginning Engineers & Architects (A Ziggurat Book)

  Mario Salvadori

  
  Students discover the basic principles necessary to build all types of structures used in everyday life including bridges, skyscrapers, and other architectural gems. Line art illustrations help to explain projects that demonstrate how these principles keep structures solid. Perfect for kids who wonder why, and love to figure things out! All projects are easily done with materials found around-the-house.
  
   

• Wheels! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)

  Annie Cobb

  
  Train wheels.  Plane wheels.  Gear wheels.  Rear wheels.  What if there were NO wheels?  How would people go?  
  
   

• The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 (Picture Puffins)

  Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen

  
  "This book . . . recounts the persistence of a Frenchman, Louis, to build a flying machine to cross the English Channel. . . . The text is succinct, caption-like in its directness and brevity. . . . The paintings . . . add the necessary texture and tone to this marriage. This is vintage Provensen."--School Library Journal. Caldecott Medal.
  
   

• Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids

  Gail Gibbons

  
  Vivid, step-by-step illustrations and a fact-filled text follow five different types of garbage--aluminum, paper, glass, plastic, and polystyrene--and show how these discarded items can be recycled and converted into new products.
  
   

• Big Book of Things That Go

  DK Publishing

  
  Featuring an artwork frieze on every spread showing vehicles in action, a colorful collection of trucks, ships, planes, and trains includes entertaining text and questions to encourage children to think about how and why machines are useful.
  
   

• How Do You Lift a Lion?

  Robert E. Wells

  
  Have you ever tried to lift a lion? Gravity makes it difficult, but you could do it with a lever. Robert E. Wells shows you how! Lively text and watercolors make you laugh while you learn the functions of levers, wheels and pulleys. Learn how to lift a lion, pull a panda, and deliver a basket of bananas to a babboon birthday party. Full color.
  
   

• All Aboard Fire Trucks (All Aboard Book)

  Teddy Slater

  
  Text and labeled pictures present trucks and other equipment used by the fire department.
  
   

• Car (Eyewitness Book, No 21)

  Richard Sutton

  
  Full-color photos. Dramatic cutaway photos of engines, brakes, and other moving parts are among the intriguing captioned illustrations in this comprehensive overview of the history, development, workings, and far-reaching impact of motor vehicles.  
  
   

• Thomas Edison: Young Inventor (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)

  Sue Guthridge

  
  A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.
  
   

• Wager with the wind;: The Don Sheldon story

  James Greiner

  
  A biography of the Alaskan bush pilot emphasizing his thirty-three year flying career and his contribution to the development of bush aviation.
  
   

• My Little Red Toolbox

  Stephen T. Johnson

  
  
   

• Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5)

  Judy Donnelly

  
  Illus. in full color & full-color photos. "The story of Apollo II's historic flight, from lift-off, through 'The Eagle has landed,' to splashdown and quarantine. Donnelly does a good job of setting the stage with chapters on the history of the idea of flight to the moon, astronaut selection and training, and look at the flight's effect on people in general."--School Library Journal.  
  
   

• This Is the Way We Go to School: A Book about Children Around the World

  Edith Baer

  
  Describes, in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school.
  
   

• Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers (Childhood of Famous Americans Series.)

  Augusta Stevenson

  
  Presents the boyhood of the brothers who flew the first airplane in 1903.