Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird's home.

Humorous text explains the concept of time, from seconds to hours on both analog and digital clocks, from years to millennia on the calendar.

"A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites...

"This picture book offers explanations of how to tell time, the difference between digital and analog time and AM and PM"--

"Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent - not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good dectective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Hercule Poirot. But there's...

Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.

Twelve mice that live in a cuckoo clock wander out to find birthday cake and have a party while Max the cat sleeps.

Catherine Daly's ability to awaken the dead for a final goodbye goes awry when she and Guy Nolan, the watchmaker's son, seek a watch but find, instead, a boy whose return from the dead draws danger to the three. By day Catherine Daly works for a printer. By night she awakens the dead for a few precious moments with loved ones seeking a final goodbye. This magic comes with a price: for every hour that a ghost is brought back, Catherine loses an hour...