clocks and watches

Discusses several concepts of time and various timekeeping devices.

Explores how humans have measured time throughout history, from moon calendars to sun clocks, hourglasses and other mechanical devices to electric, electronic, and atomic timepieces.

When his father buys an antique cuckoo clock with a secret flaw, Michael accidentally reverses time while playing a trick on his little sister.

A lonely grandfather clock finds a friend.

Bernie Bridges, the egotistical planner and schemer for a group of fourth-graders at The Rotten School, is determined to outsmart his rival in a pie-eating contest.

Describes the changing ways of thinking about time, the emergence of the calendar, and the quest for a more accurate means of measuring time.

In this story based on a school-yard game, the farmyard animals ask Mr. Wolf what time it is, while he tries to lure them to come that evening to a very special meal. At various points, a peep-hole allows a glimpse of the next illustration.

When Skip Squirrel breaks her mother's beloved cuckoo clock, her attempts to get it fixed have surprising results.

Beany Bear is not quite sure he likes the clock he received for his birthday.

When the town council decides to demolish the old library clock and replace it with a fancy modern one, Lucy and her mother try to save the historic timepiece--with the help of a dragon.