During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.

Newly minted private detective Max Freeman learns that someone is willing to kill to keep old secrets from coming to light when he sets out to investigate what really happened to three workers who disappeared eighty years earlier while working on the first road built through the Florida Everglades.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.

As they hop down the road, Mama and Toad save the day for several friends who have gotten stuck one way or another.

A boy describes the special characteristics of a thruway.

An elderly couple happily spend their days waving to all the passersby on their rural road--until a freeway is built; but, they refuse to lose hope and eventually life returns to the way it was.

"Otto, a young cat, and his father spot some weird and wonderful sights as they drive through the village, around the traffic circle, along the highway, and into the dazzling heart of the city. Here is a bus carrying a school of fish, Santa's reindeer at the shopping mall, and mice racing pen- and pencil-shaped cars! This wonderfully boisterous book, from renowned Belgian illustrator Tom Schamp, can be read from front to back and then, after being...