Anno's Sundial

by Mitsumasa Anno

Explains how the earth's movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have been used to tell time. Includes illustrations that pop up or fold out to demonstrate how sundials work.

Genres: Picture Books, Science, Mathematics

28 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1985

About the author

His name is written as 安野光雅 in Japanese.

Mitsumasa Anno (born March 20, 1926) was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUCH a cool book. I love having explanations of basic things like this, but detailed, very clear and accurate. I have found that often when you look for kid-friendly explanations of things (don't hate, I'm smart in other ways) they just gloss over shit. I guess they think the kid won't understand it anyway? Or maybe they don't? I'll never forget my epic quest to understand why you need to add salt to ice when making ice cream. Don't tell me that it lowers the freezing point I WILL SMACK YOU that is not an explanation. You're just saying things. (I did figure it out but it took sooooo long because none of the kids science websites actually explained it beyond that simple sentence I threw out.)

Anyway. Very, very cool book.

[Travis]

When I first saw this book pass through the library, I thought it looked really cool, a fairly detailed pop-up book that could actually be used, and taught you something. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to trying to read it, we were in a period of many days of overcast skies and/or rain, so I couldn't really use the dynamic aspects of the book to see for myself how it worked. And then I kind of lost interest and needed to return it to the library.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

An easy-to-understand introduction to time and geographical concepts such as line of latitude and longitude. The pop-up format makes learning these concepts fun. There were a few places where I felt the wording was a bit confusing, but on the whole it is a great book for kids and adults.

(Bought secondhand in McNaughton's Bookshop in Graaff-Reinet.)

[Ted Parsons · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book could be difficult to read, but the concepts could be extracted and modified to teach longitute and latitute very effectively. Using the principles of a sundial, students could more easily understand these concepts.

[Carol Mcgloshen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book regarding sundials. Has instructions on how to make sundials and the use of sundials. Would be geared towards older students.

[Lauren Hahn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of information. The pop-up format makes me want to attempt math pop-up books.