Caution! Road Signs Ahead

Caution! Road Signs Ahead
Author: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593224329

Empower backseat passengers to become informed backseat drivers with this road sign decoder featuring 35 shaped road signs! From road signs around the neighborhood, like "School Crossing" and "Playground," to signs you zoom past on the highway, this hefty reference board book highlights and explains 35 road and highway signs for the youngest readers on the go. The shaped pages make each sign tactilely memorable, and the carefully crafted one-sentence explanations will easily guide young readers as they contextualize the world that zips past their backseat windows.

American Signs

American Signs
Author: Lisa Mahar-Keplinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The roadside sign is an American icon: a glowing evocation of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs, more than nostalgic symbols, are complex pieces of design that reflect signmakers' ambitions and intentions, reveal cultural and economic trends, and stand as evidence of vernacular traditions. American Signs combines text and image to analyze the motel signs of Route 66 -- their concept and influences, typestyle and color choice, form and composition, context and placement. With its insightful writing, clear graphic diagrams, and hundreds of contemporary and historic images, American Signs is a singular reading experience and a groundbreaking study. Book jacket.

Verse by the Side of the Road

Verse by the Side of the Road
Author: Frank Rowsome, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 129
Release: 1979-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0452267625

"In the fall of 1925, young Allan Odell conceived the idea of using consecutive signs along the roadside. . . . In 1963 the last signs were taken down, ending the most famous outdoor advertising venture ever.”—1977 Minnesota Almanac The whole story is in this book, plus all the jingles used. The signs are gone now, except for one set on permanent display at The Smithsonian. You can have them all, always, in your own library with this book. “Rowsome’s volume indexes each of the 600 jingles . . . and as you down the list, preferably reading aloud, it might evoke visions of 1940 Chevies, roadside diners, signs that said EATS. . . . Why were the Burma-Shave jingles so universally loved? Because they were light-hearted and humorous in hard times and war times.”—Bov Swift, Knight News Service

City Signs

City Signs
Author: Zoran Milich
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554539803

Award-winning photojournalist Zoran Milich captures a world of words in the simplicity of big, bold signs. As young children discover the thirty colorful photographs in City Signs, they will delight in seeing people and places that are a part of their everyday world. With that delight comes the growing recognition of the words that are all around them --- and the exhilarating discovery that they can READ!

Highway Signs

Highway Signs
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1995
Genre: Metric system
ISBN: