About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks

No matter how much you know about the history of  telling time and the tools we use to do it,

commonly called clocks, you'll learn something from this book. This power-packed picture book starts with an explanation of the seasons, the length of time we call a month, and a year, and the idea of an organized and written calendar.

Inventions for daily timekeeping are discussed in the order they were invented from the obelisk in ancient Egypt, through various versions of the sundial,water clocks, candle clocks, lamp clocks, hourglasses, and finally, mechanical clocks and their many improvements. A quick explanation of time zones and Daylight Savings Time is included, as is a brief reflection on the nature of time itself.

This history is simply explained and carefully illustrated, creating an altogether engaging picture book about the history of time-telling. It's worthy of your shelf space.

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