Time and Time Travel

Time isn't an easy concept for kids to grasp, but young readers will delight in learning all about it with these fun and lively lessons. Exploring what time is and discovering why we need to tell time, young readers certainly learn more than 'the big hand is on the one and the little hand is on the two'. With the help of a whole lot of clocks, a dash of humor, and a few familiar circumstances, learning to tell time is a lot of fun.

A wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were the evolutionary ancestors of birds. This story conveys the tale of a bird trapped in a dinosaur exhibit at a natural history museum. Readers can see the bird enter into a mouth of a dinosaur, and then escape unscathed.

Between the rolling cadences of this choo-choo and the vigorous swaths of color left in its tracks, this picture book practically redefines locomotion. Complete with a clock face on its front end, this little engine that definitely can sets out at varying times of day, accompanied by a brief rhythm: "Light on the ceiling, rug on the floor, / train leaves the station at four-o-four." [Publisher's Weekly review]

Share adventures with Annie and her brother Jack when they accept missions from a magical library in their backyard tree house — and learn a bit of science, history, and more on these fantastic and exciting trips!

Slide back to 1897 with Mattie, Alex, and Sophie where they meet a young writer named Jack London who might be involved in the mystery of a stolen dog. Before the children return to their own time, they learn about life during the Yukon Gold Rush in this highly readable fantasy.

The history of the Hatshepsut sphinx: from its carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the hallowed halls of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Readers will meet art movers, curators, conservators, riggers, registrars, retouchers, and more in this lively picture book for young Egyptologists.

In just a second, a bat can make 200 calls, a black mamba snake can slither 24 feet, four babies are born somewhere in the world, and much more. Time takes on new meaning in this stylishly illustrated, provocative look at time and how it's measured.

Chapters on the passage of seasons, growing, and measuring time provide background, context, and meaning. A variety of effective visual aids such as timelines, photos documenting the development of a duck from hatching to eight weeks of age, and inviting descriptions of hands-on time-measuring games recognize that different readers respond to different approaches. Chapters dealing with the history of time-measuring and the various types of clocks add interest. [School Library Journal review]

Cassie doesn't have to actually go to the beach; she's got her very own "tar beach" on the roof of her Harlem apartment building. From there, her imagination takes her on a journey through time and space. The artist's quilt story was successfully adapted into this modern classic.

Everyone's favorite science teacher is back as Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a journey into the Mesozoic Era. The Magic School Bus becomes a time machine, giving the students a first-hand look at many dinosaurs and the eras in which they lived. The text and illustrations are blended in this amazing fact and trivia-filled field trip to the past.

Travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs with fifth-grader Abby and her neighbor—Ms. Lernin, a retired paleontologist in this installment of the graphic novel series about prehistoric Earth.

As a gift from his magician uncle, Joe receives The Book setting into motion a series of humorous time travel adventures. Joe and his friends, Fred and Sam, travel to King Arthur's England where they meet dragons, knights and more in this first Time Warp Trio trip. Smith's black/white illustrations punctuate the action in this fast-paced tale.

Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site?