Need food? Water? Land? A place to live? Survival depends upon motion. For thousands of years people have invented ways to move faster, farther, and more comfortably. Their inventions -- shoes, skis, the rudder, the wheel, engines, rockets--had an enormous impact on how and where human beings lived and thrived. With lively prose and super-cool photos, HP Newquist takes readers on a journey through transportation history. He makes stops along the way to raise and answer interesting questions such as: Why were the Vikings such successful sailors? (Think "keel.") Or what did horse-and-carriage gridlock bring about? (Hint: "The Tube.") Or what newfangled invention meant a big change for women in terms of freedom and fashion? (We're talking two wheels...) Or when will your next book order arrive by drone? (Sooner than you might think!)

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10+ years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Viking Books for Young Readers .

HP Newquist (www. newquistbooks. com) is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books for children, including The Book of Blood, a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Book of the Year and the critically acclaimed The Great Brain Book, an NSTA and Children's Book Council Outstanding Science Book of the Year.