Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.

"He's a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and whole lotta hose! He's a good-lookin' fire truck, and he's brave, too. When the alarm sounds, he's gotta drive through smoke and heat straight to a blazing fire!!"--Front jacket flap.

West with the Night is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? ... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky. Markham...

Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a big truck that gets stuck under a bridge.

Axel the truck may be little, but he has big wheels, a big heart, and a big appetite for adventure...Axel the truck heads to the beach for a sandy, salty, muddy, super-fun day that includes a race with the monster trucks...and some fast fish, too

The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.

An introduction to monster trucks discusses their history, mechanical features, and how they are used in competing and racing.

Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.