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Gr 1-4 In this idyllic, pastoral tale, a child's free-spirited grandmother explains how she keeps track of time even though her only clock is broken. She wakes up in the morning to the songs of birds, knows the days of the week by the comings and goings of her neighbors, and takes cues from nature to follow the seasons. "An hour is the time it takes for the bathwater to go cold-," she says, and "A lifetime, of course, you can measure in all kinds of ways: in birthdays, in friends, in what you own- or in what you r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Grandmother's only clock is tall and handsome, but it doesn't actually run. No problem, she explains: "I can count seconds by the beating of my heart.... A minute is how long it takes to think a thought and put it into words." As the day progresses, she and her granddaughter engage in companionable activities that suggest ever-lengthening extensions of the idea: birds herald a ne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More