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Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 11
Formats
Description
While riding in the car with Buzz and his father, Fly Guy gets blown out of the window and finds himself riding in a truck, then a boat, a train, an airplane, and maybe even a rocket.
4) Cool cars
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
From luxury limousines to speedy sports cars, a wide variety of automobiles are featured through rhyming text and bold illustrations paired with a picture dictionary which identifies car parts to make learning about cars even more fun.
Author
Series
Bright and early book volume BE 13
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
28 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
vii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Transportation dominates our daily existence. Thousands, even millions, of miles are embedded in everything we do and touch. We live in a door-to-door universe that works so well most Americans are scarcely aware of it. The grand ballet in which we move ourselves and our stuff is equivalent to building the Great Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building all in a day. Every day. And yet, in the one highly visible part of the transportation...
12) Getting there
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
[24] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Introduces young readers to the many and unusual ways we get around. Whether kids go on their own two feet, by wheeled vehicle, water craft, animal power, or by air, children find some unorthodox and truly imaginative ways to "get there."
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Transit expert Steven Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reformsuch as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight, Boston making room on its streets to put buses first, and Indianapolis winning better bus service on Election Day. Higashide shows how to marshal the public in support of better buses and how new technologies can keep buses on time and make complex transit systems understandable. Higashide...
14) Car
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to modern high-performance racing cars; featuring detailed cutaway photos showing how the moving parts of a car work.
16) E²: Transport
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A six-part series examines sustainable transportation alternatives with potentially far-reaching effects. Explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of storytelling, cinematography and an original music score.
17) Look both ways
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meryl is a lonely artist who literally envisions disaster around every corner. Nick is a photojournalist whose work keeps him emotionally distanced from the tragedies he documents. When the two meet in the aftermath of a real train accident, their lives, and the lives of a handful of other witnesses and victims, are revealed and transformed.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Description
An alphabet book provides a presentation of the common structures one sees and uses while getting from place to place, using such images as an "O" for a looped overpass and a "B" to denote the arches of a bridge.
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