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K-Gr 2—As she did with In the Fiddle Is a Song (Chronicle, 2006), Bernhard has taken a relatively complicated concept and presented it with elegant clarity. She begins her journey in Alaska at 10:00 p.m., with a mother reading a story to her child. Meanwhile "on the other side of the world, someone is getting dressed." A small circular flap depicts a Nigerian village, and when lifted it shows a child completing the action described at 9:00 a.m. The next page shows that same child walking through her villag...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A left-brain concept gets a right-brain treatment in this picture-book explanation of time zones. The book opens with a mother and child sharing a book; a thumbnail map says it is ten o'clock at night in the Aleutian Islands. On the facing page is a background map of Africa, with Nigeria highlighted; lift the flap to see where "someone is getting dressed" at 9:00 a.m. A page turn continues the c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This picture book explanation of time zones opens with a mother and child sharing a book at ten p.m. in the Aleutian Islands. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More