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The Story of Clocks and Calendars | 
 enlarge | Author: Betsy Maestro
Creator: Giulio Maestro
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 273053
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0060589450
Dewey Decimal Number: 909.83
EAN: 9780060589455
ASIN: 0060589450
Publication Date: November 1, 2004
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Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping! Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented? Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.
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The history of time-keeping for 2nd to 6th grades April 7, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am using this book in a math-through-history course I teach for all ages, including my own children, along with a similar book by Betsy Maestro, The Story of Money. These books are beautifully illustrated, with "denser" text than a picture book, and they fit a need for middle-grade level materials. I enjoy the simplicity of the text and stories, and find I can read these aloud to interested children of even younger ages if I can abridge the text and use the illustrations to advantage. Yet the material cannot be considered light, I learned a lot of history I never knew about before reading these books, and it whetted my own appetite to investigate the topic deeper. A great compliment to this book would be Marilyn Burns' This Book is About Time.
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