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About Time

A Children's Guide to the History and Science of Time
By Rebecca Struthers and Alom Shaha
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Brief Description
Combines the science and history of timekeeping and clockmaking with interactive elements and activities. Time is central to our experience as humans, and it's important for children to know not just how to tell the time, but also how to make the most of it. About... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Combines the science and history of timekeeping and clockmaking with interactive elements and activities.

Time is central to our experience as humans, and it's important for children to know not just how to tell the time, but also how to make the most of it.

About Time will help them learn how to tell the time on a variety of devices, and about all the different ways humans have tried to do this. Through unique and fun interactive elements, the book will also help children understand how clocks work and even build some time-telling and clockwork devices for themselves!

This book benefits from the unique partnership of an award-winning practising watchmaker and experienced physics teacher to pair the best of timekeeping mechanics and history with the national curriculum.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241709320

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK Children

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Lucy Rose
  • Illustrated by Lucy Rose

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 219.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 609g

Pages: 80

Collections

Alom Shaha Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Penguin Books Rebecca Struthers

About the Author

Rebecca Struthers is the most qualified watchmaker in British history, becoming the first practitioner in her field to earn a PhD in the subject. She is the critically acclaimed author of Hands of Time, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, as well as being a multi-award-winning watchmaker, designer, and historian. Alom Shaha is a dad, science teacher and the author of Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines and Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder, books of STEM based activities for families. He is also the author of Why Don't Things Fall Up? and has received fellowships recognising his creative approach to science communication from The British Science Association, The Nuffield Foundation, and The National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA).

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