Big Machines Ride Rails!

by Catherine Veitch

Overview

These fabulous books are a must for any young reader with an interest in vehicles and machines. Each book is filled with amazing machines, fun facts, jokes, and age-appropriate text in colorful boxes. This book takes a close look at machines on rails including bullet trains, railway snowploughs,  and the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster. Find out which machine on rails is the mightiest of them all!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484605899
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Big Machines
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	NC720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

Table of Contents

Big Boy Locomotive 4

Bullet Train 6

Railroad Snowplow 8

Hanging Train 10

Eurostar 12

Bilevel Rail Car 14

Monorail 16

Roller Ride 18

Sizing Things Up 20

Quiz 22

Glossary 23

Find Out More 24

Index 24

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2014
K-Gr 2—Big is a rather relative term in these sketchy introductions to large vehicles. Each two-page entry carries a small logo rating the machine's size as big, super, or mighty, but there's no explanation of what these terms actually mean. When does big become super? Small bits of information about each vehicle and the two accompanying photographs vary widely in clarity and specifics. The truncated or partial views and picturing of vehicles with no background for context are ineffective, as readers won't get much sense of what some of these vehicles look like or how they operate. This is a subject with a lot of child-appeal, the six categories are well chosen, and many of the vehicles are intriguing. However, the cluttered pages and skimpy information and images do the readers and the subject a disservice.

School Library Journal