Axel the truck zooms up a rocky, twisty mountain road.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.

A hard-bitten group of mangy highway cats is changed forever after the mysterious arrival of three kittens.

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

A bus gets stuck in a hole in the road, holding up a long line of other vehicles and the repair of the road.

"Otto, a young cat, and his father spot some weird and wonderful sights as they drive through the village, around the traffic circle, along the highway, and into the dazzling heart of the city. Here is a bus carrying a school of fish, Santa's reindeer at the shopping mall, and mice racing pen- and pencil-shaped cars! This wonderfully boisterous book, from renowned Belgian illustrator Tom Schamp, can be read from front to back and then, after being...

There are many big machines and busy people involved in building a road, and this picture book, with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun, follows them every step of the way, from clearing a pathway to rolling the tar to sweeping up at the end.

"In this parody of the classic children's book Goodnight Moon, all the familiar trappings of a pothole are called out: goodnight cones, goodnight bones. . . . This is a must for the bookshelf of any family with a car!"--

As war with the French and Indians begins in 1704, Madame Sarah Kemble Knight is instructed to bring twin servant girls Hester and Philena on a perilous journey by horse from Boston to New Haven, Connecticut. When Madame Knight decides to take only one of the sisters, the other risks her life to follow, and the group of travelers must make their way through the menacing and hazardous wilderness.