Amazing Motorcycles Awesome Supercars Emergency Rescue! Speedy Jet Planes

Gr 2—3—Ridley has done a fairly good job of maintaining vocabulary appropriate to the topics, but these books unfortunately lack pronunciation guidance or introductory material. Each chapter spread provides a large, colorful illustration of the featured vehicle on a pastel background accompanied by a single cropped photo (usually a close-up of one part). Several simple sentences accompany the illustrations on each spread. The information is generally accurate, but each title has some questionable areas. Jet Planes, for example, when discussing a VTOL aircraft, mentions that it does not need a runway, but fails to say why, and Supercars describes a car as being "launched," a term that has space connotations. The books also lack conclusions or summaries, which makes the endings abrupt. There is a surprising amount of information in this series but its flaws make it a secondary purchase.