Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Just a second : a different way to look at time / Steve Jenkins.

by Jenkins, Steve, 1952-

View full image

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, c2011.

Time -- Juvenile literature.

Nature -- Juvenile literature.

9780618708963 (hardback)

0618708960 (hardback)

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 21 cm.

In one second -- In one minute -- In one hour -- In one day -- In one week -- In one month -- In one year -- Very quick -- Very long.

This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year. What happens in a second? A gnat beats its wings 1000 times. A hummingbird beats its wings 75 times. A shrew's heart beats 13 times. A bat squeaks and listens for an echo 10 times. A dropped stone falls 16 feet. Earth travels 18 miles in its trip around the sun. A cheetah can run 100 feet.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal