Telling the Time

Usborne Farmyard Tales

by Heather Amery, Stephen Cartwright (Illustrator)

Sam and Poppy learn how to tell time as they do their chores on the farm, in a story that includes a clock with a movable hands.

Genres: Mathematics, Picture Books, Childrens

24 pages, Board Book

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Heather Amery was born and brought up in Bath, Somerset. Heather has written over a hundred books for children, including alphabet books, science and history books, craft books, classical fairy tales, a series for beginner readers called Farmyard Tales, Usborne Bible Tales, and Greek Myths.

Reviews

[Lacy | literary_lacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 3-year old picked this book out, and really enjoyed it. This is a great introductory book for teaching kids to tell time. It only does each hour, such as 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, and so on. It doesn’t do half ours or any other minutes in between, but that’s a little too advanced for my little ones right now.

This book was short and sweet, so it kept my kids’ attention. Each page has a different time for children to learn. It was really fun to follow along and change the time with each turn of the page.

This would be a great book to introduce time telling to kids.

[Bailey Marissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute little story that comes with a clock to help the child learn to tell and understand time.

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story 4
Illustrations 4

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best book I've seen so far for learning to tell time. As the mom and kids go about their chores on the farm, the time changes. There's a clock or watch image on each page with a hands-on version at the top that your child can manipulate to match the time in the book. Very engaging. It focuses on the hour hand, so it's for early learners of the subject, but there is one nod at the end to a half-past hour to introduce the minute hand. My kids also love finding the hidden duck on each page.

[Samantha Penrose · Rating 2 out of 5]

The illustrations are cute and the text serves its purpose-- I liked looking for the little yellow duck who is hiding on every page---I just wasn't feeling the love for this one though...maybe because the big hand of the clock was bent...the clock was difficult to use....so it goes with library books...

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Our girls received this book from their grandmother and they loved that they could set the clock to match the time discussed on each page. The story is short and entertaining and is a good way to help teach children to tell time. We enjoyed reading this book (over and over) and our girls even liked to read it independently.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for introducing clocks into the classroom. This book would be ideal for a first grade classroom. This short story allows students to have a physical manipulative attached to the book to provide the visual and tangible assistance. Students are able to follow along the book and set the time on the analogical clock attached to the book.

[Amy]

This book is really cute and would be really helpful for helping the kids tell the time. With the help of an adult, a child can use the clock on the book to learn how to tell time.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little old for us yet (at 23 months), but still lots of fun and great illustrations.

[Katterley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun way to learn about time. I've read this in board book format. Children can move the clock and have fun with the story.