Meinders Community Library Pipestone

At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.

Rumble, rumble! Here comes the dump truck. Large, colorful photographs and easy-to-read text gives young learners an up-close look at their favorite construction vehicles.

"Full color photography accompanies engaging information about Monster vehicles. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Dump Truck helps his friends Blue Truck and Green Truck do their work so that they can all play together later.

Depicts Blue Truck and Green Truck, who are very fast, and their race with Dump Truck, who is very slow. When Dump Truck dumps his load of rocks, he is able to go faster and win the race.

Fire Truck, Tractor and their other truck friends are all ready for the parade.

When Dump Truck becomes stuck in the mud during a rainstorm, his two friends work together to pull him out.

Simple text and color photos describe a military truck, explaining what each of its parts are and showing them up close. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines-inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it looks like, what it's...

Who can up with the idea behind the first truck? How big is the largest truck in the world? How much does it haul? The 'Innovation in Transportation' book Trucks takes a look at the people and creative ideas that have changed the way we think about trucks.

"You're in the driver's seat with big rigs, small trucks, and everything in between! Take a road trip in a big old 18-wheeler and see what it's like to sleep in the cab, hook up the trailer and even talk to other truckers on the CB radio! Scoop up big snow drifts in a snow plow. Pick up huge dumpsters with the robot arms of a garbage truck. Then get behind the wheel of neat specialty trucks like a street sweeper, tanker truck and cherry picker. Hop...