Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.

It is Christmas Eve, and all the construction vehicles are finishing up work on the site, and when they leave they find that there is a special present waiting for each of them.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.

Pete the cat takes a trip to the firehouse, where he tries on a firefighter's gear, takes a ride in a fire engine, and helps save Grumpy Toad from a burning building.

Packed with comic capers and animal antics, this brilliantly bold book follows Mouse's madcap race after Gorilla through a variety of exciting settings, from navigating a busy building site, to avoiding an alpine avalanche. But is Gorilla really such a baddie after all? Not at all! Mouse is simply trying to catch him to give him his banana!