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K-3Comparing Past and Present series.
Designed for young children, this book uses archival and modern photographs to compare historical modes of transportation such as walking, trains, horse carriages, and early automobiles to those of the present. Information is sparse and generalized, but the book may encourage children to learn more about how past generations lived. A note to teachers and parents is appended. Glos., ind.