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What time is it . . . and how do you know?This fact- and photo-filled Smithsonian Penguin Young Reader will fill you in on how people first began measuring time and why knowing "when" is important.Time is when things happen and how long they take to happen--but how long is all that? The history of telling time is the history of inventions and communication, from hour glasses to atomic clocks, from calendars to chronometers. Tick-Tock is a fun look at the many ways different people have tried to get in sync.



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Gina Shaw

Gina Shaw has worked in Children's Book Publishing -- Trade, Educational, Mass Market, and Licensed -- for more than forty years. She writes and edits fiction, nonfiction, and licensed picture books, easy readers, early chapter books, and middle-grade novels. Gina also likes to make school, bookstore, and library visits and enjoys critiquing and editing manuscripts for new as well as seasoned authors.Her latest book, Curious About Orangutans, for Penguin Young Readers / Smithsonian Institution, was released on October 9, 2017.



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