Orem Library

Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean.

A group of tired trucks and machines get ready for bedtime after a long day at a building site.

"A group of young dinosaurs builds a seesaw and takes turns playing on it until the bossy, big, and TERRIBLE Tyrannosaurus interrupts their game in a fit of temper. All ends well, though, when Mom steps in and encourages a peaceful and a productive end to the conflict. Hyewon Kyung's detailed and humorous illustrations will capture the attention of dinosaur fans, and a dinosaur information chart and educational backmatter about simple machines make...

Chess and his crew -- Hazel, Swedish, and Bea -- may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog that threatens to swallow the entire mountaintop city of Port Oro. Only one thing can stop the fog: an ancient machine known as the Compass. Only one person can find it: Chess. With the help of his crew, Chess faces dangerous encounters, brutal battles, and deadly driftsharks to unearth the hidden instrument. It's a race against time to save...

Describes how various earthmoving trucks clean up a dump and make a playground, discussing what such machines as diggers, mixers, bulldozers, and cranes can do.

Bigger than diggers or dinosaurs, a crew of diggersaurs rumble, crunch, and stack their way through a busy day at the construction site.

When a lost duckling waddles onto their jobsite, Digger and his friends learn how to do more than just scoop, hoist, and push.

An assortment of construction vehicles needs to be convinced to stop working so they can get cleaned up for a truck parade! But despite the narrator's cajoling, the trucks just want to keep working. They don't want to waste time taking a bath -- they want to be useful! They want to flatten soil, haul dirt, carry bricks, and lift beams! They want to DO! They want to WORK! But it turns out that there's an exciting reason for the trucks to stop their...

Join the construction crew and learn how big vehicles work and about the inventors behind them through simple rhyming text and vibrant illustrations. From bulldozers to excavators to concrete mixers and beyond, this engaging board book connects the dots between people and the technology they create and gives age-appropriate explanations of scientific concepts like homogenous mixtures and power hydraulics!