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Lift-the-Flap Construction & Demolition
Series: Lift-the-flap
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See moreIt takes hundreds of people, dozens of machines and years of work to construct a skyscraper. Lift the flaps to see construction crews digging, drilling, heaving and hoisting as they build a new building at the heart of a city. Includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites where you can watch a demolition and fly over skyscrapers.
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It takes hundreds of people, dozens of machines, and years of work to construct a skyscraper. Lift the flaps to see construction crews digging, drilling, pouring, heaving, and hoisting as they build a brand-new building at the heart of a busy city.
Lift-the-Flap Construction & Demolition includes Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites where you can watch a demolition and fly over skyscrapers.
Chapters in this book include:
- An architect's desk
- Demolition
- Crews and machines
- Strong and stable
- Gaining height
- Around the clock
- Hidden engineering
- Grand opening
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781474942966
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Format: Board book
Date Published: 02 April 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Peter Allen
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 280.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 16
About the Author
Jerome Martin has written children's books about science, history, Shakespeare and food. Before joining Usborne in 2014, he spent a decade studying literature at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Iowa, and several years behaving responsibly in a copywriting office. Now, he spends his working hours researching delightful and amazing facts, his evening hours parenting two children, and the minutes inbetween writing poetry.
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