Cars Planes Boats Trains

Explores the history of travel and transportation, looking at the technological development of boats and ships, trains, automobiles, airplanes, and jet aircraft.

An interactive pop-up book introduces youngsters to various modes of transportation through interesting facts, bold illustrations, imaginative pop-ups, and intriguing foldouts.

Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes displays exciting vehicles that float, fly or speed across the land, including the record breakers - the fastest, largest, longest and costliest modes of transportation ever to zoom, sail or soar. Explore over 1,000 different vehicles and discover fun facts and figures. This kid's encyclopedia is the fastest route to learning about the entire history of all modern modes of transportation, from the first wheel to the latest hybrids. Cars, Trains, Ships and Planes is the perfect gift for young transport enthusiasts, who are revved up and ready to read.

With the help of this guide, children and other beginning artists will enjoy learning how to draw 30 different forms of transportation — most of them composed of simple shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations show how to put these shapes together to form everything from a canoe, biplane, and antique locomotive to an ocean liner, seaplane, and passenger car of a modern train. Fun to draw, these pictures will also help youngsters and budding artists understand the basics of shape, form, and dimension. Blank practice pages are included.

Perfect for counting practice and development of visual discrimination.

Planes, trains, automobiles and boats, send your child on the ultimate transport adventure Fasten your child's seatbelt, hit the ignition, and send them off on a full-throttle ride around the incredible world of transport. Watch as they get behind the controls of cars, planes, ships, and trains for every possible way of getting from A to B and back again. They'll see under the bodywork of classic cars, bikes, planes and boats to find out how they work. Fantastic fold-out pages reveal amazing machines, from a Morgan Roadster to a Zodiac XL plane and explore bustling stations, ports and airports. Plus, they'll travel to the ends of the earth and back to find out about the technology, history, experience and environmental impact of transport and travel.