365
How to Count a Year
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Explore different numerical breakdowns of a year in this playful concept picture book that introduces numbers big and small in creative ways, all adding up to a wonderful 365 days!
A year can feel like a really, really long time. One trip around the sun. Twelve months. Fifty-two weeks. 365 days. 31,535,000 seconds. It seems like forever, so let’s break it down! A year is made up of 365 “Good mornings.” It’s fifty-two Friday night movie nights, twelve calendar backgrounds, and one special birthday wish. Time passes in so many fun and exciting ways—come explore them!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A year's worth of days is a lot to wrap one's head around, as signified by the 365 neatly numbered circles that fill the front endpapers of this chatty explainer from Paul (Little Libraries, Big Heroes) and Chung (Vrooom, Vrooom!). Revealing that a year technically equals 365 and a quarter days, the creators break the temporal measurement into more manageable segments, all portrayed in posterlike digital pictures starring a brown-skinned child and a bright yellow lion companion. Sure, a year can represent "hopefully, 365 clean pairs of underwear," but it can also be "52 get-naked-and-SPLASH Sunday baths" (the lion dives head first into the tub) or 12 monthly "clean-the-fish-tank messes" (the duo imagine they are deep-sea divers). Even smaller increments exist, of course—though the creators acknowledge that thinking about a year as, say, 525,600 minutes "could drag on and on and on." Ultimately, time is what one makes of it, and the book ends advocating for reflection over mere enumeration: "1 marvelous collage of 1 year in the life of you." An afterword delves into calendars and adds plenty more about "how much can happen in one year." Ages up to 8. Author's agent: Erin Murphy, Erin Murphy Literary. Illustrator's agent: Rubin Pfeffer, Rubin Pfeffer Content.
