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Building Machines and What They Do

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Book Description
How does a cement truck mix cement? How are garbage trucks emptied? These are just two of the questions curious children are likely to ask about the vehicles they see around them every day. Fortunately, for those of us who don't know everything (or anything!) about such topics, Dereck Radford has assembled an impressive variety of facts about building machines. The brief text and realistically ren... More
Book Information
PublisherCandlewick Press
BindingPaperback (7 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-101564023648
ISBN-13978-1564023643
Publication Date06/06/1994
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About Derek Radford (Author, Illustrator) : Derek Radford is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Derek Radford include Harry at the Garage, Happy Birthday Tiger Twins.
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