Age
7-10
Grade
1-5
Jeff Szpirglas, Stephen MacEachern
Just A Minute!
Hardcover
(Owlkids April 28, 2009)
Far more than just another picture book, Just a Minute couples a delightfully zany story with a fact-filled look at just what can occur in the course of a minute or an hour, a day, a month, or a year. The story follows Gary, who’s a mere 5 million minutes old, throughout his day, which takes some decidedly unusual turns involving a monkey caper, animals escaping from the zoo and crashing a movie set, and bounteous backyard hi-jinks before the animals can be rounded up and safely returned to their enclosures. As readers hop aboard for the ride, they learn many facts, featured in colorful pop-ups, about what can happen in a minute in the world all around them. With Jeff Szpirglas’ wacky humor on full display, Just a Minute taps into children’s sense of fun while offering an accessible, well-researched look at the meaning of time. A helpful time-facts index is included at the back of the book.
- ISBN
- 1897349440 / 9781897349441
- Pages
- 40
- Weight
- 13.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.75 x 0.5
in.