Just a Minute

Key Selling Points

• This STEAM title provides a comprehensive overview of time and how and why we measure it, touching on the historical, scientific, practical, philosophical and literal ways time has always been a part of human life.
• Explores many facets of time, including animal time and natural cycles, physiology and biology of time in the human body, time and climate change, daylight saving time, lunar time and more.
• Additionally, this title introduces young readers to social concepts of time, including time across cultures (circular versus linear time and Indigenous ways of knowing), mindfulness versus busyness and time in mythology and storytelling.
• Features plenty of fun facts about the smallest units of time (zeptoseconds!), the recent discovery of time cells in the human brain, an explanation of how dogs know it's dinner time and how a walk in nature can slow down time.
• Kirstie Hudson and Monique Polak are award-winning authors of nonfiction books for kids. Kirstie Hudson's co-authored book, The Witness Blanket, won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction and Monique Polak's book, What World is Left, won a Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.