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Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers
Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers About Time
his book answers all kinds of questions about time, from 'When did time begin?' to 'How does a sundial work?'. Children can lift over 60 flaps to discover what, where, when, how, yes or no, and learn about the time on a clock, the months of the year and time zones around the world. Published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich. Series: Boardbook Author/Editor: Katie Daynes Illustrator: Marie-Eve Tremblay • Ages: 5 years and up • Size of book: 8.75 x 11 inches • Pages: 13 hard cover
13 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2016
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Katie Daynes
210 books35 followersKatie has been writing non-fiction children's books for almost half her life and loves questioning the world from a child's point of view. She's developed some of Usborne's bestselling series, including the See Inside books and the Lift-the-Flap Questions & Answers series.
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February 16, 2023
Quite good - I'm being a bit stingy with a 3 (really a 3.5, rounding down), but it's simply because the book feels like a stack of quiz flashcards, and doesn't have a central narrative or, um, chronology. XD
Full of interesting little factoids, it feels like a collection of questions posed by children and answered, accurately but concisely, by an expert. It just sort of failed to draw me in - there's so much that's WEIRD about time (like the fact that it probably doesn't exist and is some sort of shared illusion... I can recommend The Order of Time for an accessible, virtually mathematics-free overview for adults. Great fun, and a little disconcerting, in all the best ways...), and this book stuck mainly to the 'how is time measured, practically-speaking' content.
Annoyingly, I always wanted to see how the old glass and sand hourglasses were made (from the glass making, to the reproducibility (was there?), to what they first timed the hour against), and there was a very brief depiction of the old water clocks, but even they weren't well described...
Also, sundials - yes, obviously, they only work on sunny days when a shadow can be cast, but what about alignment? Differences in summer and winter? Do they work better at the equator because of the angle of the sun, or does it matter?
If you're going to stick to the practical, I feel it needs David Macaulay's level of detail.
Otherwise, let's get stuck into the hypothetical. :) Or the historical - a timeline of time-telling devices, or timers by cultures, very clearly compared (instead of random examples scattered throughout). So some opportunities were missed.
I bought this secondhand (out of print), in 'very good' condition, and the flaps have held up quite well. Or, um, withstood the test of time....
Full of interesting little factoids, it feels like a collection of questions posed by children and answered, accurately but concisely, by an expert. It just sort of failed to draw me in - there's so much that's WEIRD about time (like the fact that it probably doesn't exist and is some sort of shared illusion... I can recommend The Order of Time for an accessible, virtually mathematics-free overview for adults. Great fun, and a little disconcerting, in all the best ways...), and this book stuck mainly to the 'how is time measured, practically-speaking' content.
Annoyingly, I always wanted to see how the old glass and sand hourglasses were made (from the glass making, to the reproducibility (was there?), to what they first timed the hour against), and there was a very brief depiction of the old water clocks, but even they weren't well described...
Also, sundials - yes, obviously, they only work on sunny days when a shadow can be cast, but what about alignment? Differences in summer and winter? Do they work better at the equator because of the angle of the sun, or does it matter?
If you're going to stick to the practical, I feel it needs David Macaulay's level of detail.
Otherwise, let's get stuck into the hypothetical. :) Or the historical - a timeline of time-telling devices, or timers by cultures, very clearly compared (instead of random examples scattered throughout). So some opportunities were missed.
I bought this secondhand (out of print), in 'very good' condition, and the flaps have held up quite well. Or, um, withstood the test of time....
October 27, 2019
Fun and colorful, this book is loaded with facts about time and flaps!
October 14, 2020
Entertaining, educating and so cute! Lovely book for curious kiddies aged 5-9
November 25, 2023
私が楽しい本
November 25, 2023
時間に関するトリビアが文字通り本に隠されていて、めくるといろんなプチ情報が読めて大人も楽しめる
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