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Non-Fiction > Transport

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My First Book of Transport (Collins)

$20.00 NZD

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Category: Transport | Series: Collins First

Discover about the world's fastest planes, boats and floating trains. There's everything inside: cars of the future, one man space-ships, hot air balloons, submarines and more. This brightly illustrated and engaging book will give hours of pleasure as well as help with school work and projects. Find out about it all with Collins. Part of the 'My First' series of reference books for young readers. ...Show more

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Trucks! (and Other Things with Wheels)

$23.00 NZD

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Category: Transport

A fun, visual miscellany for younger children who love anything related to cars and wheels! Each double-page spread features a different group of fascinating vehicles to pore over, such as trains, race cars, emergency vehicles, and even a junk yard. Filled with hundreds of different trucks and other ve hicles from around the world, even the most avid young transport fanatic will discover surprising new machines they haven't seen before! ...Show more

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See Inside Trains (Usborne Lift-the-Flap Board Book) by Emily Bone

$23.00 NZD

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Category: Lift-the-Flaps | Series: Usborne See Inside

Trains hold a fascination for just about everybody and this lift-the-flap history of locomotion tells it all from Stephenson's Rocket to the bullet trains of today. You can lift the flaps to explore all kinds of exciting trains, from a luxury steam train fit for a queen to super-fast trains that run on magnets, trains that can climb up mountains, and lots, lots more. Part of a collectable series of interactive information books. ...Show more

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Look Inside an Airport (Lift-the-Flap Board Book) by Rob Lloyd Jones

$23.00 NZD

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Category: Lift-the-Flaps | Series: Usborne Look Inside

Airports are thrilling and fascinating places for children, full of unusual equipment, strange machines and - of course - lots of planes. This book allows young children to find out more about how an airport works. Richly informative, with colourful, friendly illustrations and lots of flaps to lift and look beneath. ...Show more

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My Little Golden Book about Airplanes (Little Golden Book) by Michael Joosten

$6.00 NZD

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Category: Transport | Series: Little Golden Book

Little pilots can learn all about exciting airplanes and famous aviators in this high-flying Little Golden Book! Climb aboard and soar the skies with this adventure-filled look at a subject all children are fascinated by- airplanes! Full of exciting illustrations, simple sentences, and unbelievable fac ts and stories about some of the most memorable aviators (the Wright brothers, Charles Lindberg, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart) and airplanes (the Concorde, the B-2, the 747), My Little Golden Book About Airplanes is a celebration of the dreamers and doers of aviation. ...Show more

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The Car Book (DK) by Kathryn Hennessy

$30.00 NZD

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Category: Transport | Series: Definitive Visual Histories

This book stylishly shows you everything you might want to know about the history of the automobile. With stunning visual images and over 2,000 cars featured, the evolution of the car is tracked from decade to decade and across international borders, from India's Ambassador to Italy's Alfa Romeo. This e dition updated with cars from 2012-2014. ...Show more

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See Inside Ships (Usborne Lift-the-Flap Board Book) by Conrad Mason

$23.00 NZD

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Category: Lift-the-Flaps | Series: Usborne See Inside

This is a new addition to the "See Inside" series about ships throughout history from Viking longboats to Spanish galleons, ironclads to aircraft carriers. With over 90 flaps you can reveal the insides of ships from across the ages, explaining in simple, clear language what they were used for, how the c rew and passengers lived and how they sailed the oceans. It includes a gate-fold page of a huge aircraft carrier. ...Show more

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1. 5 Billion Transport Vehicles on the World's Roads (The Big Countdown) by Ben Hubbard

$24.00 NZD

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Category: Transport | Series: The Big Countdown

Discover the numbers behind cars, planes, trains and rockets - from the teeny tiny to the mindbogglingly massive Do you know how fast a space rocket blasts through the sky? Or how deep under the sea submarines have ventured? How about the number of electric cars on the road? Or the top speed of NASA's crawler transporter (hint - it's not very fast!) Discover the answers to all these questions and much more in The Big Countdown: Transport. Helping readers to visualise and understand numbers, The Big Countdown series looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to the smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it's not just our days that are numbered. Ideal reading for number-crunchers aged 9 and up. ...Show more

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Amazing Transport: Journey through the History of Transport by Tom Jackson

$27.00 NZD

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Category: Transport

Fasten your seat belts and get ready to zoom through the history of transport and discover incredible facts about all kinds of vehicles along the way. Every day, all over the world, people are busy travelling - short hops or great, long voyages, moving slowly and steadily or racing along at super-fast speeds. They make their trips in cars, trains, planes, ships and on bikes - and some people even blast off in rockets! Make your own amazing transport journeys as you explore timelines and discover the people and stories behind the machines that keep the world moving. Take a twist or turn and find out what happened when the Freedom 7 blasted into space, race your way through Japan at lightning speed on the awesomely fast bullet train, set sail on a Viking longship and let the wind carry you away in a hot-air balloon with the Montgolfier brothers. With wonderfully intricate illustrations from Chris Mould, Amazing Transport tells the story of some of science's most recognisable inventions in a way you've never seen before. Prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime. ...Show more

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Emergency Vehicles by Simon Tyler

$19.00 NZD

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Category: Transport

The fastest police cars and motorbikes. . . The most powerful trucks . . . Firefighting helicopters . . . A thrilling book packed with full-colour technical illustrations and information about emergency vehicles from around the world. Featuring various emergency scenarios, and fully researched to be up to the minute, this book is already a hit in-house . ...Show more

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Beep-Beep and Zoom's Things That Go by Patricia Hegarty

$20.00 NZD

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Category: Pop-Ups

Beep-beep and Zoom love things that go, Things that go fast and things that go slow. From boats to trains and cars to planes, discover all sorts of vehicles in this rollicking, rhyming pop-up book.

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The Train Book (DK) by Sam Atkinson

$30.00 NZD

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Category: Transport | Series: Definitive Visual Histories

Definite visual history and glorious celebration of all things train and track. The Train Book traces the history and role of trains from the first steam engines to diesel engines and then to today's high-speed bullet trains. You'll take a journey through the most important trains of each period and see iconic trains such as the Orient Express, the Fairy Queen, the Mallard and the Javelin in incredible detail, discovering the anatomy of these legendary engines. The Train Book gives you a truly international view of trains, exploring some of the world's most impressive rail routes from South Africa to Siberia, including the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the high-speed Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen line. You'll discover the stories of key innovators, designers and engineers who advanced rail travel, the challenges they faced and the cultural backdrop against which the railways were built. The Train Book is the perfect gift for train enthusiasts of all ages. ...Show more

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