How long did I spend looking at one ingenious illustration tracking several people (and a dog) as they aged? I don’t know. This latest picture book from Mac Barnett and Dan Santat has a pretty long title: Oh No Not Again (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History) (Or at Least My History Grade). The book speeds along for pages and then, suddenly, a picture arrests your attention, and time dilates. She marshals the tools the art form has put at her disposal - composition, color, text and image - to create a rhythm that plays with time itself. She’s also a master of picture book craft. Oh No Not Again (Or How I Built a Time Machine to save History) (Or at Least My History Grade) (An Oh No Picture Book) Mac Barnett, Dan Santat (Illustrator) Hardcover List Price: 17.99 Individual store prices may vary.

Morstad takes kids seriously, which makes her the only kind of adult worth listening to. “Time is / staying in there / to think about what you did. You may not be perplexed to enjoy every book collections Oh No Or How My Science Project Destroyed The World By Mac Barnett that we will totally offer. There is a poignant depiction of a timeout: A redhead with pigtails sulks on a stool, tiny against a background of solid black. Having recovered from the world-destroying science project she created in the first Oh No (2010), Barnetts overachiever has a new dilemma: Her history. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Morstad grounds heady concepts in the observable world - flowers and butterflies serve as biological clocks - and in a child’s experience. Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.

It’s remarkable how much territory this book covers: geologic time, time zones, our perception of time, time’s effect on the body, the bake time for a loaf of bread. If your children havent come across any of Mac Barnetts hilarious (and extremely.

Oh No! Not Again! by Mac Barnett