When It's Six O'Clock in San Franciso: A Trip Across Time Zones
by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Our dear friends, S & C, gave this to G for her 4th birthday. It's a book about time zones, and in little vignettes, it shows how children in different cities around the world are spending their time at the same time. So when it's 6:00 AM in San Francisco, it's the afternoon in London, dinner time in Lahore, and the middle of the night in Sydney. The stories are just a snapshot of what each child is doing at the given time, but there's enough to make the narratives compelling. G has become more aware of the abstract concept of time zones from our travel to India. But this book shows a whole range of time zones from each continent (except Antarctica), and with a nice range of ethnic, gender and nationality diversity. As she learns to tell time, the little clocks at the bottom of the page will be more interesting. Already the map at the back of the book, showing the location of each story helps her to grasp the idea that concrete, real people live all over the world and are as fully alive as we are here (a concept that some adults have trouble grasping!).
by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Our dear friends, S & C, gave this to G for her 4th birthday. It's a book about time zones, and in little vignettes, it shows how children in different cities around the world are spending their time at the same time. So when it's 6:00 AM in San Francisco, it's the afternoon in London, dinner time in Lahore, and the middle of the night in Sydney. The stories are just a snapshot of what each child is doing at the given time, but there's enough to make the narratives compelling. G has become more aware of the abstract concept of time zones from our travel to India. But this book shows a whole range of time zones from each continent (except Antarctica), and with a nice range of ethnic, gender and nationality diversity. As she learns to tell time, the little clocks at the bottom of the page will be more interesting. Already the map at the back of the book, showing the location of each story helps her to grasp the idea that concrete, real people live all over the world and are as fully alive as we are here (a concept that some adults have trouble grasping!).
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