As they hop down the road, Mama and Toad save the day for several friends who have gotten stuck one way or another.

Highlights how road mpas and GPS help people travel from one place to another. Includes maps, color photographs, a text-related activity, a glossary, and resources for further information.

Simple text and color photographs depict the history, construction, maintenance, and functions of roads.

"Around the world, roads have cut off animals from the resources they need to survive. Fortunately, this problem has also inspired some creative solutions! Take a tour of wildlife crossings from badger bridges to penguin pipelines"-- Provided by publisher.

A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to highways. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the numbers one through ten while describing the people and machinery involved in fixing a hole in the road.

Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to help Toad learn that the road is no place to play.

"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...

The late-19th- and early-20th-century vision of the New South relied upon economic growth and access. The development of the Dixie Highway from 1914 to 1927—with its eastern and western branches running from Ontario, Canada, south to Miami, Florida—would help facilitate this dream attracting industry, tourists, and even new residents. Images of America: Tennessee's Dixie Highway: Springfield to Chattanooga tells the story of people,

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