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  • It's about Time! (Big Ideas That Changed the World #6)

It's about Time!
(Big Ideas That Changed the World #6)

Author
Publication Date
January 21, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
It's about Time! (Big Ideas That Changed the World #6)

Description

Award-winning author-illustrator Don Brown explores the science of time in It's About Time!, part of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series

In It's About Time!, narrator Albert Einstein takes kids through time--literally. Measuring time is explored, from the stone circles and giant pyramids of ancient cultures to hourglasses and sundials to early time pieces and watches to atomic clocks. The book explains why there are 12 months a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. And seven days in the week.

From Stonehenge to Greenwich Mean Time to James Hutton's Deep Time, the book helps kids understand the passage of time, and why sometimes it seems so slow and other times way, way too fast.

Also includes: Time Timeline, Who was Albert Einstein?, endnotes, and a bibliography.

Big Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true.

Big Ideas That Changed the World series:
Rocket to the Moon! (#1)
Machines That Think! (#2)
A Shot in the Arm! (#3)
We the People! (#4)
All Charged Up! (#5)
It's About Time! (#6)

Publication date
January 21, 2025
Genre
Non-fiction
Page Count
128
ISBN-13
9781419773310
Publisher
Abrams Fanfare
Series
Big Ideas That Changed the World
BISAC categories
JNF051140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Physics
JNF062030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Science & Nature

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Starred Review

Using non-mathematical language to explain the mind-bending ins and outs of time to young audiences constitutes a challenge...a challenge that Brown meets with aplomb...Expansive, engaging, and lucid.

Don Brown

Don Brown is a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction- and Sibert Honor award-winning creator of nonfiction teen graphic novels. Praised for his resonant storytelling and evocative, delicate watercolor paintings, Brown "has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies, says School Library Journal. He lives in New York.
www.booksbybrown.com
Instagram: @donsart

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