How is a car manufactured? Alison Hammond, of "Big Brother" fame, goes inside BMW's factory in Oxford to provide a lively guide to the production process for its new mini. Production planning: First comes production planning. Customers' orders are analysed by a program called "Kiss" - this is vital to meet buyers' special requirements. Stage two is "Body in White" - 228 robots weld the basic framework together. Quality control: Quality control is...

A young boy creates an imaginary world filled with zooming cars, flashing traffic lights, and racing fire engines.

Machines developed for use on land change the way the world works. When tanks were first built, they changed the course of a war. Cars changed how people move--and now electric cars are doing it again! Mag-Lev trains are amazing feats of engineering that move faster than anyone 100 years ago would have thought possible! Readers of this compelling volume explore the science and engineering behind many kinds of machines that go on land, including full-color...

Examines vehicles workers drive. Each page is a quiz for you to find the answer to.

"In Cars, emergent readers learn about cars and how they're used as a mode of transportation. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once."--

"The Mystery Machine broke down, and Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang are stranded. It's going to take every type of transportation to get back home, including a bus, train, boat, plane, and more! Young readers will delight in using the clues in the text and photos to guess what type of transportation the gang is using before turning the page"--

Can you draw vehicles? You can if you start with simple shapes! Circles and squares become a mighty monster truck. Triangles and rectangles make a speedy race car. What kind of vehicle can you draw with shapes?

"Show your little one they fuel your days with loads of love in this adorably punny book about things that go! The perfect gift to share with someone wheely special"--

"Keep our cars and trucks running smooth! In this book, readers will meet the mechanics who work on vehicles, from cars and trucks to airplanes and big machines. Aimed at emergent readers, the text also includes vocabulary specific to this community helper's job, along with colorful action images"--

Simple rhymes introduce various large vehicles: diggers, fire engines, tractors, rubbish trucks, cranes, transporters, dump trucks, road rollers, bulldozers and lorries, and describe the work that they do. Suggested level: junior, primary.