My Busy Day (Busy Times)

Hibbert, Clare

ISBN 10: 1607531011 ISBN 13: 9781607531012

Publisher: Amicus, 2011

Synopsis

Introduces the concept of time while following a young girl's day, from the moment she wakes up until bedtime.

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About the Author

Clare Hibbert is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Butterflies and Moths, Out and About, and Real Pirates. Sylvia Raga is an illustrator whose works include Mr. Bickle and the Ghost, Nick's Birthday, and The Sand Dragons.

From Booklist

Plenty of series deal with the passing of time in a macro sense, but the Busy Times series shaves young readers’ lives into the most basic of components and, in doing so, succeeds in explaining the temporal and spatial relationships that are secondhand concepts to older kids. Each volume divides a different span of time (a day, a week, a year, a lifetime) using examples of what happens throughout. The ingenious device of a “window” on each spread shows what else is occurring simultaneously, gently suggesting to children that the world does not, in fact, revolve around them. My Busy Day contrasts a child’s typical day with the events of a larger world: going to school (one student is at the doctor’s office), eating rice at lunch (in a faraway land, people grow that rice), and so on. Meanwhile, Raga’s pleasingly two-dimensional illustrations use labels to point out familiar objects in each scenario. A surprisingly effective tackling of a hard-to-grasp concept. Preschool-Grade 1. --Daniel Kraus

About this edition

• Publisher: Amicus
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1607531011
• ISBN 13: 9781607531012
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Raga Silvia