Humorous text explains the concept of time, from seconds to hours on both analog and digital clocks, from years to millennia on the calendar.
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-Beginning with a robust "TICK" and ending with an equally bold "TOCK," Older acts as both an encouraging coach and cheerleader for youngsters learning about time. He defines the concept clearly, citing two meanings-when things happen and how long things take. After delving into how time can be broken down (from a second to a century), the author gets down to the nitty-gritty of telling time. He begins with the easier digital-clock face. Once that is thoroughly explained, he ponders the more difficult analog clock. Readers are taken through the process of reading it, and little tests are thrown in to keep students on track. Answers are given in the text, along with rewarding smiley faces. ("Yes! It's seven-thirty. You deserve another smiley face!") The cartoon illustrations, showing children and many, many types of clocks are colorful, plentiful, and inviting. A rather silly poem is appended to help readers remember how long things take: "Sixty seconds make a minute,/that's a lot of seconds, innit?" Although a.m. and p.m. are discussed ("-breakfast is at six A.M., but supper is at six P.M.") they are never really defined. Beyond these minuscule qualms, this jovial look at time and time telling is as handy as they come.
Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Author: Jules Older
Jules has written for The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, and Skiing Magazine. He is the author of many children's books, including COW, Anita! The Woman Behind the Body Shop, Hank Prank in Love (Puffin Books), Hank Prank and Hot Henrietta (Puffin Books) and Ben and Jerry, The Real Scoop! (Chapters Publishing).
Jules writes funny, accurate, lively books for children. He visits schools and libraries across the country to encourage children to read and write. Jules donates 7.5 percent of all earnings from his children's books to causes such as The Heiffer Project. He lives in Vermont with Effin who is also a writer.
Illustrator: Megan Halsey
Megan Halsey has illustrated more than two dozen books for children, including 3 Pandas Planting (Bradbury Press, 1994), which she also wrote, and Anne Rockwell's One Bean (Walker Books, 1998), and ABA "Pick of the Lists." Megan lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Telling Time After Reading Through Once!,
By Mama to 4 "mrsotto" (Frederick, MD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital and Analog Clocks! (Paperback)
Our almost 6 year old has been wanting to be able to tell time for the past year. We've tried many different manipulatives with not much luck past the o'clocks and X:30. After reading this book just once, she's now actually telling time on analog clocks. It's slow going, but she really gets it now. Our daughter LOVES the poem at the end. It also covers calendar time - from one day to a millenium.The book is VERY interactive in the way it's written when the parent reads to the child. My only complaint is that it's never explained about what hour it is when the hour hand is between numbers or almost on the next number.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a very colorful and detailed book. I would say this book is more for 6-9 year olds...written a little wordy but does get the point across. Takes a while to read at night to my 5 year old - and to keep him concentrated on it.
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It is a good book to help teach kids the concept of time. However, it is a little too much information for my 2 yr old. However, he still enjoys the book when I read it to him, and it is nice that it shows the difference between digital and analog clocks. I know once we have been working with it for a while, he will get the concept. He loves clocks, so he loves the book.
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