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Our homes, businesses, and other buildings would not exist without the expert craftsmanship of dedicated trade workers. In this book, readers will learn what it is like to work as a construction equipment operator. They will find out what equipment operators do each day, what kind of education is required to become an equipment operator, and much more. Includes table of contents, author biography, sidebars, glossary, index, and informative backmatter....
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 20 cm.
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Asphalt pavers are used to lay and smooth asphalt on roads, keeping them level and safe for drivers. Straightforward text explains to young readers the components of these machines and the tasks they perform.
9) Job site
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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The bulldozer, the excavator, the loader, and other heavy machinery all have important tasks to accomplish at the job site: digging, lifting, carrying, dumping, moving, shaping.
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1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lets children get up-close and personal with their favorite construction equipment, from excavators, front loaders and graders, to Bobcats, scrapers and dump trucks, plus many more of the earth-movers you can see every day.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
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"Full-color photographs feature construction vehicles. Geometric shapes discernable on the vehicles are digitally highlighted for easy identification, and rhyming text names both the shape and the truck. A final spread directed at caregivers shares age-appropriate enrichment activities for toddlers learning to identify shapes. On sturdy stiff paper pages."--
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24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"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...
15) Demolition
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Illustrations and rhyming text show the enormous and powerful machines that are used to demolish a building so that a playground can be built.
17) Digger and Tom!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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The building site will not be ready until one last rock is removed, and although the big machines all have a go at it, only Little Digger has what it takes to get the job done--with some encouragement from Tom, the dump truck.
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"Top dog Duke leads a busy work crew to a new construction site. All sorts of dogs have plenty to do before the day is out. These clever dogs will dig, haul, push, plow, and even bring in a crane to build a new park. But what happens when they find something unexpected buried deep in the ground?"--Dust jacket.
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bob and his team are ready to build big! Bob is on hand to rescue his friends when Scoop is stranded sky-high and Leo gets trapped in Fixham castle. We meet the Spring City Rockets at an outdoor movie space and Scoop mixes a crazy concrete creation inspired by Chef Tattie's milkshakes. No job is too big for this team as they build it Sky-High!
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