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Tick-Tock Sharks
Kids can learn how to tell time with a big, foldout, moveable clock-both analog and digital-and a funny story about how sharks spend their day!
At eight o'clock in the ocean flow,
Whale sharks wake, get dressed, and go.
Silly sharks have a very full day in this rhyming, interactive book that features a foldout, movable clock! At ten o'clock, they learn their 1, 2, 3's. At eleven o'clock, they play in a band. At four o'clock they learn water ballet. The clock opens out to accompany every page and shows both analog and digital time. Delana Bettoli's beautiful illustrations perfectly capture the humor of these wonderful sharks!
Illustrator Delana Bettoli's anthropomorphic illustrations make time-telling even more fun!
At eight o'clock in the ocean flow,
Whale sharks wake, get dressed, and go.
Silly sharks have a very full day in this rhyming, interactive book that features a foldout, movable clock! At ten o'clock, they learn their 1, 2, 3's. At eleven o'clock, they play in a band. At four o'clock they learn water ballet. The clock opens out to accompany every page and shows both analog and digital time. Delana Bettoli's beautiful illustrations perfectly capture the humor of these wonderful sharks!
Illustrator Delana Bettoli's anthropomorphic illustrations make time-telling even more fun!
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
40 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2005
20 people want to read
About the author
J. Elizabeth Mills
42 books27 followersI was a children's book editor at Scholastic for seven-and-a-half years before I moved to Seattle to work at Cranium Inc. Now I'm striking out on my own as a freelance editor and writer. I have worked in many bookstores, including Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. Children's books are my passion!
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August 24, 2018
This is a cute story that combines time-telling skills with different types of sharks. I'm putting it in the day care library at work.
December 25, 2023
Quite certain I read this before I was in preschool. Probably 4 years old.
January 21, 2013
Mommy's review from 7/28/10 -
This is a different sort of book, starting with the clock on the front cover that a child can manipulate and move to whatever time they'd like. There is an hour and minute slot each so the child can also see what time it is in "digital" form.
Julia's favorite part was being able to identify the whale shark in the beginning. (Thanks Dora the Explorer!)
The text included is minimal, a short poem in the form of less than 20 lines. In the upper corner of each page there is a small clock that shows the time coinciding with the line in the poem.
The book starts with the beginning of a school day and ends with bedtime so that's familiar to many kids also. Julia wasn't very interested in time or learning how to tell time when we first started reading this but now she's a little older and more open to learning so we're starting to read this and play with the clock a little more.
This is a different sort of book, starting with the clock on the front cover that a child can manipulate and move to whatever time they'd like. There is an hour and minute slot each so the child can also see what time it is in "digital" form.
Julia's favorite part was being able to identify the whale shark in the beginning. (Thanks Dora the Explorer!)
The text included is minimal, a short poem in the form of less than 20 lines. In the upper corner of each page there is a small clock that shows the time coinciding with the line in the poem.
The book starts with the beginning of a school day and ends with bedtime so that's familiar to many kids also. Julia wasn't very interested in time or learning how to tell time when we first started reading this but now she's a little older and more open to learning so we're starting to read this and play with the clock a little more.
October 15, 2011
This book has 2 portions. The first is on the cover and has a movable clock that shows the hour and minute hands, but also the digital clock. As the hands are rotated, the digital clock changes as well. The interior of the book deals with kid sharks and what is involved in their throughout their day at school. Book incorporates rhyming and telling time.
Teacher could have students make a schedule for their day, either at school or at home. Teacher could also have index cards with different activities on them and times on the other side. Students would have to sequence them, this would help in understanding of time.
Teacher could have students make a schedule for their day, either at school or at home. Teacher could also have index cards with different activities on them and times on the other side. Students would have to sequence them, this would help in understanding of time.
January 28, 2016
My struggling reader loved this book!
To be honest I received this as a gift from a family member. I thought it was a cute book and the kiddo wanted to instantly read it. This is a kid that really struggles with reading and never wants to do it. When he was excited about this book it made me excited. To think that this book may have changed everything for him, makes me smile.
The story is very engaging and incorporates a challenging vocabulary. The clock was a fun add on.
Recommended for any young readers.
To be honest I received this as a gift from a family member. I thought it was a cute book and the kiddo wanted to instantly read it. This is a kid that really struggles with reading and never wants to do it. When he was excited about this book it made me excited. To think that this book may have changed everything for him, makes me smile.
The story is very engaging and incorporates a challenging vocabulary. The clock was a fun add on.
Recommended for any young readers.
October 10, 2015
This is a great book for learning about time. It shows the time in both digital and analog. It also has the benefit of rhymes, which help engage the children and teach them about a literacy skill. I enjoyed all the different types of sharks and the names of them sparked some questions and conversations.
June 13, 2018
Tick-Tock Sharks by Elizabeth Mills is a cute rhymed book which tells in a fun way how sharks spend their day. It also teaches children about schedule, how to read the clock, and exposes children to different types of sharks. This book can be utilized to target both language and cognition:
1. Phonemic awareness - by looking for rhymed words
2. The concept that numbers tell us time
3. The concept of time and how to read a clock analog and digit (a child can manually move the tab and change the time)
4. The story resembles the schedule of many kids; this provides an opportunity to work on receptive and expressive language skills by asking if what they do is similar to what sharks do during the day.
1. Phonemic awareness - by looking for rhymed words
2. The concept that numbers tell us time
3. The concept of time and how to read a clock analog and digit (a child can manually move the tab and change the time)
4. The story resembles the schedule of many kids; this provides an opportunity to work on receptive and expressive language skills by asking if what they do is similar to what sharks do during the day.
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