Cover of Time Flies

Time Flies

It is at once a wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were the evolutionary ancestors of birds.

Time Flies , a wordless picture book, is inspired by the theory that birds are the modern relatives of dinosaurs. This story conveys the tale of a bird trapped in a dinosaur exhibit at a natural history museum. Through Eric's use of color, readers can actually see the bird enter into a mouth of a dinosaur, and then escape unscathed.

Read more

The New York Times Book Reviewcalled Time Flies"a work of informed imagination and masterly storytelling unobtrusively underpinned by good science...an entirely absorbing narrative made all the more rich by its wordlessness." Kirkus Reviewshailed it as "a splendid debut."

Genre
fantasyadventuretime travelhistorical fiction
Themes
animalsartimaginationbirdsnature
Subject
sciencehistory
Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Time Flies? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Time Flies. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Free Fall Shares picture books, wordless, caldecott
  2. The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher Shares caldecott, picture books, wordless
  3. Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride Shares caldecott, picture books, childrens
  4. The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Shares caldecott, picture books, childrens

“People who read Time Flies tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Rainstorm
  2. Sidewalk Circus
  3. Goggles!
  4. Peppe the Lamplighter

“If you want more of the same (fantasy about animals), start with these.”

  1. Honk Honk! Beep Beep!
  2. The Koala Who Could
  3. The Bog Baby
  4. Bumpety Bump!

“If it was the wordless that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Red Book
  2. Truck
  3. A Ball for Daisy
  4. Sector 7

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Museum Trip
  2. Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
  3. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
  4. Karen's Dinosaur