Incredible Cars

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Incredible Cars takes kids on a journey from the days of the earliest road vehicles and horse-drawn carriages to today's performance sports cars that can go up to 211 miles per hour. Along the way, they'll learn about pioneers like Karl Benz, who built the first successful car, the Motorwagen, and about famous cars like the Lamborghini Murcielagro Roadster, which was used by Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne in “The Dark Knight.” With the pieces to build models of these and other fantastic cars included with the ...
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Overview

Incredible Cars takes kids on a journey from the days of the earliest road vehicles and horse-drawn carriages to today's performance sports cars that can go up to 211 miles per hour. Along the way, they'll learn about pioneers like Karl Benz, who built the first successful car, the Motorwagen, and about famous cars like the Lamborghini Murcielagro Roadster, which was used by Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne in “The Dark Knight.” With the pieces to build models of these and other fantastic cars included with the book, it'll be a hands-on experience kids will never forget.

In our world, cars can seem so commonplace—but with Incredible Cars, kids will learn how they're truly amazing!

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781607102410
  • Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
  • Publication date: 11/8/2011
  • Series: Amazing Vehicles Series
  • Pages: 12
  • Sales rank: 938,317
  • Age range: 7 - 9 Years
  • Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Gaby Goldsack lives in rural Wiltshire with her husband, baby boy, 2 horses, 2 dogs and 4 chickens. She has been writing and editing children's books for over 20 years. Before becoming a freelance editor and writer in 1995, she worked as a non-fiction editor for Scholastic and Hodder Headline. Over the years she has written everything from short stories and picture books to information and activity books. Although she enjoys tackling a wide-range of non-fiction subjects, her primary interest lies in history in which she has a degree.

Illustrator Lee Montgomery lives in Bath, in the UK. Originally from Hampshire, Lee was trained as a technical draughtsman, before finding his feet in the more colorful world of illustration. He produces work for advertising, packaging and magazine editorials as well as children's books. He began his career as a watercolour artist, but these days produces his work entirely digitally.

Anthony Williams, The Comic Stripper, and his happy band of helpers have been creating cutting edge cartoon, comics and comic-book illustration for two decades. This includes drawing such icons as Spider-man, Superman, Batman and The X-men. The Comic Stripper also creates artwork for a huge range of licensed characters including Ronald McDonald, Ben 10 and Scooby Doo. The work of the Comic Stripper has featured in many national and international advertising and marketing campaigns. Also, illustrations for children’s books, concept illustration and storyboards for both live action and animation. Anthony has been called upon for comment in print on all things comic related and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows.

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