About Time

A Children's Guide to the History and Science of Time

Rebecca Struthers, Alom Shaha, Lucy Rose

$32.99

Hardback

Forthcoming
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English

DK Children
26 August 2025

Early learning: time & seasons; Early learning: telling the time; Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA)

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.

By: Rebecca Struthers, Alom Shaha
Illustrated by: Lucy Rose
Imprint: DK Children
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 282mm, Width: 219mm,
ISBN: 9780241709320
ISBN 10: 0241709326
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 26 August 2025
Recommended Age: From 7 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rebecca Struthers is the most relevantly qualified watchmaker in British history, becoming the first practitioner in her field to earn a PhD in the subject. She is the author of 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 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? as well as a number of educational books.