Wing-walking, record-breaking racing cars, and the very first motorcars all feature in this beautiful children’s book, packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and bursting with fascinating facts about transport across land, sea, and sky. Our World In Pictures: Cars, Trains, Ships, and Planes explores the incredible world of automobiles, aviation, and beyond, from mini motors to modern warships and helicopters to high-speed trains, in an engaging encyclopedia perfect for transport enthusiasts aged 9-12. Striking and detailed diagrams, drawings, and illustrations fill every page, combining a highly visual approach to learning with colourful diagrams and infographic text boxes, while timeline spreads tell the story of transport from the first wheel to the latest hybrids. This captivating encyclopedia also takes a fun, sideways look at some of the world’s meanest machines and most fearless riders in action, with striking illustrations, photographs, and diagrams offering an optimum visual learning experience for children and adults alike, alongside an array of fun facts about ships, shuttles, planes, monster trucks, and modes of transport readers may never have seen or heard of before. Handy at-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the key stats, with text accessible enough for ages 9-12 yet engaging for the whole family, making this an educational gift that can be passed down through generations. Learn all about the world one picture at a time – and if you like Cars, Trains, Ships, and Planes, why not complete the collection? Part of the highly visual Our World In Pictures series, readers can dive into the world of dinosaurs with The Dinosaur Book, understand the animal kingdom with Animal Book, and venture across the globe with Countries, Cultures, People & Places. If you find yourself seeking answers to quirky questions like these, this might just be the book for you. Every spread invites another look, with something new to spot on each return visit.
ISBN 13: 9781409348504
Author: DK
