The narrator muses on the nature and trickiness of time, and how too often it passes far too quickly, robbing this parent of the minutes and hours spent with their child.

"Early one morning, a strange visitor arrives -- a visitor whose name is Holiday. "I'll be taking over for you today!" Holiday tells Monday. And before long, Holiday has met the other days, even Saturday and Sunday, who usually sleep all week. With each introduction, Monday becomes more and more upset. She is used to starting the week, and she'd like to keep it that way. When Holiday announces how much fun he's having, and that he'd like to stay,...

After fast-talking Fox leaves him with a large, green egg, Bear spends minutes, hours, days, and weeks lovingly caring for it with the help of his neighbor Hare.

Explore the world's strangest races and the serious competitors seeking to break new world records! From toilet racing to the fastest freefall time, take a look at some of the strange things people do as you measure the time it takes to set a world record. By integrating math and literacy skills, this high-interest math reader makes learning mathematics simple, relevant, and fun, and the real-world examples of problem solving allow students to explore...

Through easy-to-follow text and full-color photographs, the concepts of day and night are, explained in ways that are easy for readers to understand using topics such as the diurnal and nocturnal activities of people and animals. A "Words to Know" section at the beginning of the book helps students learn new vocabulary they will encounter in the text, while suggestions for other books and websites encourage students to learn more.

Con un mapa y un globo terráqueo, puede explorar nuevos lugares. Te muestran adónde ir. Le muestran qué esperar una vez que llegue allí. Con un mapa en la mano y un corazón para la aventura, está listo para ver el mundo. Este libro en español presenta a los estudiantes de primer grado el concepto de cómo leer mapas y globos terráqueos. Imágenes detalladas junto con texto fácil de leer y características básicas de texto brindan a los lectores...

Encourage beginning readers to learn about days, weeks, months, and years with this engaging nonfiction title that features detailed images, simple text, a glossary, and an index to help children develop their reading skills. A culminating activity promotes additional thinking and learning.

Enjoy a fun day at the carnival while learning how to measure time! Students will build their literacy skills and math content knowledge while engaged in reading about magic shows, petting zoos, bumper cars, and funnel cake. This appropriately leveled Spanish math reader features problem solving and everyday connections that make learning data and measurement seem easy, relevant, and fun. Let's Explore Math sidebars and the extensive Problem Solving...

"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, eve as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...

Updated for 2020, young children learn about the concepts of "under" and "over" through simple sentences and illustrated repetitive text.