Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Time Flies - Picture Book #13


Time Flies
Author: Eric Rohmann
Caldecott Honor Book
Publisher: Scholastic Inc/New York 1995

Genre: Picture Book, Historical Fiction
Themes: Dinosaurs, Time, Musuems
Primary Characters: Wordless
Secondary Characters: Wordless
Summary:
          Time Flies follows a small bird as it makes its way through the dinosaur exhibit at a museum.  While flying through the different exhibits the dinosaurs transform from skeletons to living creatures.  Soon the whole scene has transformed to a setting straight out of prehistoric times.  The bird is swallowed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex and as it travels through the mouth the dinosaurs return to their skeletal shapes.  This book shows how much time has changed and how fast it goes by.  I would use this as a writing exercise.  I would show the book and not say anything.  Then I would have the children write what they think happens on each page.

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