Conejos Library District

Excavators are used to dig holes and lift heavy things. They use tracks to move along dirt roads. Learn more about these machines in Excavators, part of the Monster Machines series.

It's busy in the building site, with bulldozers, cranes, tip-up trucks and cement mixers all at work! Dive into the world of diggers and trucks with this picture book brimming with busy bright photos, accessible read out loud text and playful rhymes.

Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.

Simple text and photographs present different kinds of earthmovers.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces extreme diggers to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.

"See some of the larger earth-moving equipment in this action filled video. these include excavators up to 85 tonnes, crawler tractors up to D9, articulated dump trucks from Caterpillar, Volvo and Bell, Rigid dump trucks from Euclid, scrapers including Cat 637G, loaders, compactors and graders. Describes technical detail and why particular machines are used for different jobs. Shows equipment at work in this exciting and specialized world of large-scale...

Describes the parts of a grader, how it works, and the work it does at a construction site.

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.

Detailed illustrations introduce readers to the engineering behind diggers and other powerful construction machines.

These giants can push through just about anything in their way. Find out just how useful these machines can be.