Big Rigs and Beyond: 60 Amazing Facts About Trucks

About This Book

Why does a big rig have 18 wheels? Can a monster truck really do a backflip? How long is an Australian road train?

Big Rigs and Beyond is packed with 60 amazing facts for kids who wave at every truck on the highway. From air brakes and turbochargers to concrete pumps, airport crash tenders, mud-bog racers, Pakistan's painted trucks and the electric and self-driving trucks of the future, it shows how trucks work and the big jobs they do.

Every fact gets its own two-page spread: a short, exciting fact to read on the left, and a full-page truck picture to color on the right.

Inside this book:

• 60 truck facts written in kid-friendly language
• 60 full-page coloring pages of trucks and big machines
• An "Under the Hood" bonus fact on every spread
• A "Trucker's Challenge" for every fact
• Six themed sections: inside a big rig, life on the road, trucks with special jobs, monster trucks and off-roaders, trucks around the world, and the trucks of the future

Made for truck-loving boys and girls ages 6 to 12. A screen-free gift for birthdays, holidays and long road trips.

Part of the Color & Discover series of fact and coloring books.