Product Description

From the very first travellers who crossed the Bering Strait on foot to future space travel, Let's Go! is a delightful introduction for young readers to the fascinating history of transportation. Lizann Flatt's spare, lyrical text and Scot Ritchie's charming illustrations include a delightful search-and-find element: an adorable dog that appears somewhere on each spread. Let's Go! is perfect for early readers and great for reading aloud. Amazing "Did You Know" facts at the back of the book give additional information on the featured modes of transportation. Readers join a journey across land, sea and sky to see the First Peoples trailing travois and wearing snowshoes, to the traders and trappers crossing cold, fresh waters, to settlers in wooden ships and horses pulling barges. Along the way, young readers get a fascinating snapshot of life at different points in our history as steamships, railways, streetcars, bicycles, cars and airplanes come along while the world becomes a busier place. And yet readers are reminded that some of the same ways to get around in ancient times are still used today. Let's Go! is a joyful adventure for early readers. Ages 5-8.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #482202 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .38" h x 8.69" w x 10.31" l, .92 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

Review
…it’s all about the ways to get around and across Canada. Lively, colorful, full-page illustration. (Burnaby Now )

This book would be a wonderful addition to a unit on travel or change and introduces a good range of vocabulary (nouns and verbs) related to transportation...Well worth purchasing for any primary grades classroom. (Canadian Teacher )

Excellently done…Any child that loves trucks and cars will be intrigued by this illustrated timeline and will love the trivia included at the end of the book. (JellyMom.com )

From the Stone Age to today young readers get a glimpse into what it was like to travel across the country. From snowshoes to ships, from horses to cars, from trains to planes and the possibility of everyone traveling by space ship in the future. The fun illustrations and simple text show readers how our travel has changed over the years. You'll also find some interesting “Did you know?” facts about travel at the end of the book. (KidsBookshelf.com )

About the Author
LIZANN FLATT (Bracebridge, Ontario) has written several books for children, including the bestselling Nature Treasury. She is the former editor of Chickadee magazine and has won several writing awards, including a Distinguished Achievement Award from EdPress. SCOT RITCHIE (Vancouver) is an award-winning illustrator who has illustrated more than 30 children's books, including the bestselling Why? Up, Up, and AWAY is his most recent book.