This interactive board book helps children learn how to tell time. It gives many different scenarios in which you would need to tell what time it was; what time is a doctor’s appointment, what times does school start, and how long you have until you need to be ready for something. This book also has a built in watch that lets the children participate during the book.

This book is defiantly a book that you need to read to only a certain age and not any sooner. It is very helpful but I believe it is too confusing or complex for a child that is too young to understand it. If you had an older class this book would be very beneficial to have in the classroom. I love the fact that it has a built in watch so that the children can use it to solve the problems the book gives. It is not a read aloud book. I believe that it would be better within a center.

Using this book in a center would be the most beneficial because I believe it needs someone on one time with a student. You could have the children make their own watches with actual moving hands using brads. That way they could take the watch home to help them. Having them create their own watch will not only strengthen their ability on telling time but they will also have to know where the numbers go and in what order they must go it. This is a skill that the children will need to know for the rest of their lives so there is no doubt that it is important.