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Trucks of Every Sort

Text and photos describe a variety of trucks and explain their functions. Includes a moving van, dump truck, ice-cream truck, and fire truck.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780517541647 | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1982, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Describes many kinds of trucks, discussing how each one works, with exexamples ranging from ice-cream trucks to cement, glass, and garbage trucks

Paperback:

9780517566404 | Reprint edition (Random House Childrens Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Describes many kinds of trucks, discussing how each one works, with examples ranging from ice-cream trucks to cement, glass, and garbage trucks

Tools

Twenty-three full-color, labeled photographs of tools include paintbrush, screwdriver, trowel, and pliers.

By Ken Robbins

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9780027773705 | Atheneum, August 1, 1983, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Collects photographs of a wide variety of tools, including a screwdriver, pipe wrench, trowel, pliers, and folding rule

Building a House

Detailed photographs accompany text to show how a house is constructed from the ground up, the workmen involved in this endeavor, and the materials necessary to complete the job

By Ken Robbins

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9780027774009 | Atheneum, April 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes, step-by-step, how a house is built from the architectural design through the final installation of fixtures and fittings.

City/Country: A Car Trip in Photographs

Photographs and simple text capture the universal images of a car trip, as seen from a child's backseat perspective.

By Ken Robbins

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9780670807437 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A car trip is seen through the eyes of a child sitting in the back seat, from city streets to the peaceful countryside, with plenty of landmarks, bridges, tunnels, signs, and billboards along the way

A Horse Named Paris

Text and photographs depict how eleven-year-old Amanda Kraus cares for, rides, and enjoys her horse Paris

By Ken Robbins and Lynn Sonberg

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9780027862607 | Atheneum, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Text and photographs depict how eight-year-old Amanda Kraus cares for, competes with, and enjoys her horse Paris.

Beach Days

Hand-tinted photographs and simple, poetic text recreate the fun of a beach trip.

By Ken Robbins

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9780670801381 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Captures the wonders of the seashore and the fun of a trip to the beach

At the Ballpark

Hand-tinted photographs and simple text re-create the fun and excitement of a day at a baseball game.

By Ken Robbins

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9780670816002 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Hand-tinted photographs and simple text re-create the fun and excitement of a day at a baseball game.

A Place of Your Own Making: How to Build a One-Room Cabin, Studio, Shack, or Shed

By Ken Robbins and Stephen Taylor

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Paperback:

9780805003642 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $14.95

Boats

Introduces children to various boats, from the massive liner to the simply dingy

By Ken Robbins

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9780590411578 | Scholastic, August 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describe in text and photographs the characteristic features of twenty different ships and boats including tugboats, submarines, trawlers, and swamp buggies.

A Flower Grows

Illustrates the life cycle of an Amaryllis.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780803707641 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Captures the beauty of an amaryllis as it blooms

Library:

9780803707658 | 1 edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, April 1, 1990), cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Captures the beauty of an amaryllis as it blooms

Bridges

Hand-colored photographs illustrate bridges of many different types, with descriptions of their design and use

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780803709294 | 1 edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1991), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Hand-colored photographs illustrate bridges of many different types, with descriptions of their design and use

Library:

9780803709300 | 1 edition (Dial Books for Young Readers, April 1, 1991), cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Hand-colored photographs illustrate bridges of many different types, with descriptions of their design and use

Make Me a Peanut Butter Sandwich and a Glass of Milk

A look at what goes into the making of a peanut butter sandwich shows readers how the bread dough is mixed, rises, and bakes, and describes how peanuts are grown, harvested, crushed into peanut butter, and jarred.

By Ken Robbins

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9780590435505 | Scholastic, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Text and hand-tinted photographs show how each part of a peanut butter sandwich and milk lunch is made, from field, to store, to table

Power Machines

Photographs and text describe such work-saving machines as a crane, jackhammer, bulldozer, and backhoe

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780805014105 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Photographs and text describe such work-saving machines as a crane, jack hammer, bulldozer, and back hoe

Paperback:

9780805052978 | Reprint edition (Owlet, April 1, 1997), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Photographs and text describe such work-saving machines as a crane, jackhammer, bulldozer, and backhoe

Prebinding:

9780613027939 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: Photographs and text describe such work-saving machines as a crane, jackhammer, bulldozer, and backhoe

Water: The Elements

A beautiful photographic essay, featuring unique hand-colored photographs and a simple, yet accurate and evocative, text, explores the many visual aspects of water, giving us new perspectives on ice, rain, snow, the sea, and much more.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780805022575 | Henry Holt & Co, November 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A pictorial essay shows the varied forms and uses of this vital substance, from its natural occurrences as rain and ice to its use by man for cleansing, drinking, and ritual

Earth: The Elements

The award-winning author and photographer introduces young readers to the physical, practical, and spiritual aspects of planet Earth and to moral and ethical questions related to our manipulation of the planet and its resources.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780805022940 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shows the varied landscape forms of the earth, discussing natural occurrences such as earthquakes, volcanoes, dust storms, and erosion

Air: The Elements

A photographic introduction to air examines its role as a finite resource while presenting such images as a free-falling parachutist, a blacksmith's bellows, a clothesline, rust, and a prism. By the author of Water and Earth.

By Ken Robbins

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9780805022926 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A pictorial essay introduces readers to the meteorological concepts of air while instilling a sense of respect for this precious commodity

Fire

A final book in the Elements series provides an informative, scientifically accurate examination of fire in all its manifestations, citing the roles of fire as energy, heat, light, danger, and ritual.

By Ken Robbins

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9780805022933 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines fire in all its forms, from volcanic flames to forest fires

Rodeo

Offers a comprehensive review of this unique sport, covering the rules of a rodeo and its various events, such as bull riding and saddle bronc, and the part played by many of its colorful participants, from the cowboys and cowgirls through the fearless clowns.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780805033885 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Photographs and text describe cowboys participation in various competitive events at a rodeo

Autumn Leaves

Examines the characteristics of different types of leaves and explains how and why they change colors in the autumn

By Ken Robbins

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Paperback:

9780439149884 | Scholastic, January 1, 2003, cover price $5.95

School and Library:

9780590298797 | Scholastic, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examines the characteristics of different types of leaves and explains how and why they change colors in the autumn

The Hamptons Suite

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780967851600 | Accabonac Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $45.00

Fireflies at Midnight

Accompanied by extraordinary photographs, an energetic collection of poems captures a day in the life of various creatures, from a robin greeting the morning light to fireflies searching for each other in the darkness.

By Ken Robbins (illustrator) and Marilyn Singer

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9780689824920 | Atheneum, April 1, 2003, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Observes through verse and illustrations how several different animals spend their day during the summer.

Animal Life in Nature, Myth and Dreams

By Elizabeth Caspari and Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9781888602227 | Chiron Pubns, March 1, 2004, cover price $34.95

Seeds

From spring's first flower to summer's most luscious watermelon, young readers will learn the facts about the shapes, the sizes, and the dispersal patterns of seeds and how they flourish throughout the year.

By Ken Robbins

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Hardcover:

9780072520361, titled "Mechanical Engineering Design" | 7th edition (McGraw-Hill College, July 1, 2003), cover price $140.95 | also contains Mechanical Engineering Design

School and Library:

9780689850417 | Atheneum, January 6, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Describes how seeds grow, and vary in shape, size, and dispersal patterns, and how everything, from flowers to fruits, begins with a tiny seed.

100 Views of the Hamptons

Product Description: Forget what you've heard. The Hamptons are NOT a state of mind. The two townships at the eastern end of Long Island, New York - with their villages and hamlets - comprise a decidely physical place of dunes and fields, wetlands and shorelines, ocean, bays and inlets...read more

By Ken Robbins (photographer)

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Paperback:

9780967851617 | Ill edition (Accabonac Books, August 15, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Forget what you've heard.

Keepers: Treasure-hunt Poems

By John Frank and Ken Robbins (photographer)

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9781596431973 | Roaring Brook, April 1, 2008, cover price $17.95

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