Building, blasting and crushing. It's all in a day's work for front-end loaders, diggers and dozers. Mighty machines. At the construction site: Big Cat the shovel is your guide for a tour of a hospital construction site. It takes a lot of different machines to build a hospital, and you'll meet the bulldozers, dump trucks and mixers that make it all happen. Then visit a skyscraper construction site and watch as Carmen the Crane lifts heavy machinery...

Backhoes are powerful machines that help build houses or other structures. The strongest part of a backhoe is its digging bucket, which scoops up dirt and rocks. Young readers will find out how this machine operates and works in this easy introduction.

Text and illustrations teach young children what a concrete mixer is and how it works.

Dump trucks help the other machines on a construction site by transporting dirt or other materials. Some dump trucks can carry a load of up to 52,000 pounds. Read about how these machines work and watch for when the truck dumps its load!

Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to fire trucks.

These machines are very important in keeping a farm running smoothly. A tractor pulls other machines through the field. Plow through this book as a tractor pulls a plow, a planter, or a mower.

Did you know that some big trucks have 18 wheels? All different kinds of trucks travel the roads daily. Young readers will learn about pickup trucks, big rigs, and monster trucks in this simple introduction.

Have you ever seen a big truck on the highway? That is called a big rig. It transports many of the things we use in our everyday lives. Read about the different types of big rigs and how they transport cargo.

Simple text and supportive images introduce young readers to graders.

A monster truck rolls over a car and crunches it under its huge wheels. Monster trucks are giant pickup trucks that can race around a track. Kids will roar with excitement as monster trucks dominate this book's pages.