THE BOOK OF TIME
Did you know that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second? Or that the US once had 144 different time zones? Or that across your lifetime, you'll spend about 33 years in bed?
Discover more questions, answers, and theories in this bumper book all about the past, present, future, and beyond! The Book of Time is brimming with fascinating information about the concept of time.
What is time? How does it work? And is it even real? The book uses time as a lens to explore a wide variety of STEAM subjects that kids know and love-such as space, dinosaurs, animals, the human body, and machinery-with a completely fresh perspective.
Through a simple yet fascinating approach, you'll learn about:
The measurements of time
Big and small time
Time-travel
Paradoxes
And lots more mind-boggling things
Cool, graphic illustrations help convey sometime abstract concepts and make for an engrossing reading experience. Children will be able to wow and amaze all their family and friends with extensive and fascinating information about time.
Absorbing, entertaining, and surprising, The Book of Time will teach kids to look at the world in a whole new way.
CLIVE GIFFORD
Clive Gifford has traveled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots, and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and has received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian, and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colors of History QEB . Clive lives in Manchester, UK.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 10 años.
GIFFORD CLIVE
Es un periodista y autor con gran experiencia, con más de 180 libros publicados y más de 800 artículos y relatos escritos para adultos y niños.
Clive es un autor poco común al que le gusta trabajar tanto en ficción como en no ficción. Tal vez esto refleje su inusual vida que, hasta ahora, lo ha visto viajar a más de 70 países, ser tomado como rehén en Colombia, practicar paracaidismo, entrenar varios deportes y dirigir una empresa de juegos de computadora.
