Using a 75-word vocabulary and clear illustrations, pre-readers are helpfully introduced to the concepts of number, colour, and opposites. These books have been designed to appeal to children through the use of humour, rhyme and bright pictures that can be 'read' even by the non-reading child.

A new look for a whistle stop tour of everything that moves in the busy world of Richard Scarry!

When the gasoline, diesel and electric shovels arrive, it looks like Mary Anne the steam shovel will be sold for junk, unless Mike can think of a really special job!

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles, this is a brilliantly original book.

Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.

Duck's truck is stuck in the muck, but luckily help is at hand in the form of a frog. When Frog and Duck fail to release the truck they enlist the help of a Sheep in a jeep, and then a Goat in a boat. Goat is the one who finally sets the truck free, but with unexpected consequences.

Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? Why are people so different inside their cars than they are outside them? This book explains why traffic problems are really people problems. It shows that how we behave walking the streets, on our bikes, and in our cars is an astonishing cultural indicator.

Shows how divorcing a car can be fun, healthy, money-saving, and helpful to the planet in the process. Car-dependency is a serious problem, but this book is leavened with love-affair and self-help analogies in the text, as well as cartoon illustrations.

A big city garbage truck makes its nighttime rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.

An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.

Offering a comprehensive history of shipping containers, this book recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible.

The titles in this series draw the reader from page to page with magical die-cutting. Classic nursery rhymes accompany the colourful artwork.

An account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united America's East and West.

The history, the future and the rolling stock of the 5 premiere subway systems in the world - New York, Paris, Washington DC, Moscow and London.

Some people just won't take the hint when it's time to go to bed, but Marvin K. Mooney eventually gets the message! This fun tale by Dr. Seuss will delight young readers and remind them that they sometimes have to do what they are told!