Children's Literature: Time

Describes the concept of time and how it has been measured throughout history, using water clocks, sundials, calendars, and atomic vibrations.

Discover Benedict drinking hot chocolate in Paris, France; Mitko chasing the school bus in Sofia, Bulgaria; and Khanh having a little nap in Hanoi, Vietnam! Clotilde Perrin takes readers eastward from the Greenwich meridian, from day to night, with each page portraying one of (the original) 24 time zones. Strong back matter empowers readers to learn about the history of timekeeping and time zones, and to explore where each of the characters lives on the world map.

For each hour of the day Bear Child participates in a new activity, and as he does the reader sees the time on the clock.

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Discusses time, the invention of clocks to keep track of daily activities, and types of clocks from sundial and water clock to electric and atomic clocks.

Words and sign language depict children at the zoo discovering how to sign the names of various animals and how to tell time.

Pictures and brief text present the activities of the several residents of a large house at various times of the day.

This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time.

A man drastically reorganizes his daily routines to save time, only to come to a startling realization.

Each day as the sun makes its dawn-to-dusk journey from the Eastern seaboard to the Pacific coast, the animals perform their daily routines.

Presents the days of the week, the months of the year, and numbers from one to ten through the activities of a cat and people in and around a lighthouse.

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.

The four seasons are viewed in poetry from the perspectives of a weasel, spring peeper, dragonfly, and goose.

A second lasts as long as a hiccup; a week is seven sleeps; and a year is the time it takes to grown into new shoes!

preschooler marks the progress of her day, not by the clock but by what happens after lunch, after nap, after swimming, after the library - and after Daddy comes home.

A collection of poems about clocks and time.