At the Zoo: Telling Time by the Quarter Hour

by Alice Procter

Teaches time by reviewing what a young girl does throughout the day at the zoo, including watching the monkeys at ten in the morning and visiting the lions at three in the afternoon.

24 pages, Library Binding

First published July 15, 2007

About the author

Alice A. Procter is an art historian and museum enthusiast. When she graduated in 2016 she couldn’t get a job, so she started an irreverent and low-tech podcast called The Exhibitionist, reviewing galleries and museums with friends and terrible background noise.

That turned into Uncomfortable Art Tours, unofficial guided tours exploring how major institutions came into being against a backdrop of imperialism. She runs these regularly at six sites, exploring the role colonialism played in shaping and funding national collections, looking beyond the surface of paintings to unravel the ideological aesthetics at work.

Alice’s academic work concentrates on the intersections of postcolonial art practice and colonial material culture, the curation of historical trauma, and myths of national identity. She is currently writing an MA thesis on protest, disruption and rule-breaking in art galleries.

She is Australian but grew up in London.

Reviews

[Irina · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book goes through the different times of day based on a trip to the zoo. This book is not a story book, it is more factual. It has a lot of good information, but I think that it would be too difficult as an introduction to time. Maybe it can be used for an older child who is learning the different ways of telling time. (by the quarter hour in this case)