The Book of Time: Adventures in the Past, Present, Future, and Beyond

by Clive Gifford, Teo Georgiev (Illustrator)

Overview

Did you know that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second? Or that the US once had 144 different time zones? Or that across your lifetime, you’ll spend about 33 years in bed?

Discover more questions, answers, and theories in this bumper book all about the past, present, future, and beyond! The Book of Time is brimming with fascinating information about the concept of time.

What is time? How does it work? And is it even real? The book uses time as a lens to explore a wide variety of STEAM subjects that kids know and love—such as space, dinosaurs, animals, the human body, and machinery—with a completely fresh perspective.

Through a simple yet fascinating approach, you’ll learn about:

• The measurements of time
• Big and small time
• Time-travel
• Paradoxes
• And lots more mind-boggling things

Cool, graphic illustrations help convey sometime abstract concepts and make for an engrossing reading experience. Children will be able to wow and amaze all their family and friends with extensive and fascinating information about time.

Absorbing, entertaining, and surprising, The Book of Time will teach kids to look at the world in a whole new way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711279575
Publisher:	words & pictures
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	1,002,439
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 11.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Clive Gifford has traveled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots, and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and has received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian, and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colors of History (QEB). Clive lives in Manchester, UK. 

Teo Georgiev is an independent Helsinki-based illustrator working in publishing, children’s literature, and branding.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Everyday Time
Big Time
Small Time
The Year and Seasons
Long Day?
Time in Space
High in the Sky
Time of Day
Curious Calendars
Time in Culture
Question Time
Like Clockwork
Advances in Time
Champion Clocks
Alarming Stories
Time to Explore
High Time
In the Zone
Saving the Day
Strange Times
The World Over Time
Geological Time
How Old?
Lifespans
Sign of the Times
Time of Your Life
Body Clocks
Can Animals Tell the Time?
You’re Late!
Record Times
Time Savers
Time Wasters
The Time it Takes
Once in a Lifetime
Time on Your Mind
The Time, the Place
The Fourth Dimension
Time Travel
Puzzles and Paradoxes
The Future
A Timeline of Time
Glossary
Index
 

Editorial Reviews

“A fascinating treasure trove.”—The Bookseller - Editor's Choice

“Get your children off the internet – and into a cracking science book […] Clive Gifford is out save children’s non-fiction from terminal decline, and he’s back with the dizzyingly informative The Book of Time”—The Telegraph

“A brightly illustrated book to help young readers understand the concept of time, via 40 different topics from time zones to how long in your life you’ll spend in bed.”—The Bookseller

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