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Synopsis
In this high-tech, digital age, you still need to learn to tell time the old fashioned way! Today, children learn to tell time digitally and often don t really become comfortable reading the hour hand and the minute hand of a traditional clock.
Conceived and written by an educational specialist who has taught scores of children to tell time, Once Upon a Time presents both an analog clock face and one with familiar digital numbers. This colorful picture book doesn t just show the hour or the half-hour. . .every five-minute increase is demonstrated!
In addition, common expressions like a quarter to 8 half past 7 are included. A helpful note to parents and teachers offers readiness activities and tips on explaining the clockface to children.
Once Upon a Time is just as interesting to kids who are still too young to tell time. They will enjoy the broader message that every minute is precious, and learn that the best way to use time is for Torah study and the performance of mitzvos!
A beautiful, large-sized volume with bright, full-color illustrations Once Upon a Time entertains as it educates with unusual characters and catchy rhymes.
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About the Author
Draizy Zelcer is a reading specialist and author of My Jewish ABC's, a popular alphabet book for children published by Hachai. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family
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K-Gr 2-A concept book about telling time, set in a friendly little town where everyone is Jewish and regards each moment of the day as a gift from God. The story is told in rhyming quatrains, one verse to a page, each highlighting events throughout the day where time is important, from seven a.m. when a boy says the prayer recited upon awakening until midnight, when only the rabbi is still awake, studying Torah. Some of these moments, like the sweet-smelling garbage truck that starts at 7:30 or the woman with 15 pairs of twins who does 15 loads of laundry each day at 7:55, seem a bit far-fetched but the large, bright, cartoon illustrations invest them all with humor. Others, like the verse that describes 20 Zeides (grandfathers) reading their seforim (holy books), will be familiar only to children with very strong Jewish backgrounds, even if readers consult the glossary. Clock faces showing the time of day are depicted in a border of gears running across the top of most pages where little men fix the gears, set the clocks, tell readers how to understand the featured time, and provide more visual humor. Although this likable book is probably limited to an observant Jewish readership, within that circle it shows and affirms a way of life that sanctifies even the most mundane of daily activities.
Linda R. Silver, Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, OH
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