{"product_id":"time-flies-isbn-9780517885550","title":"Time Flies","description":"Eric Rohmann's Caldecott Honor-winning debut is now available as a \u003ci\u003eDragonfly \u003c\/i\u003epaperback. It is at once a wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were the evolutionary ancestors of birds.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \u003ci\u003eTime Flies\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\" \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e hailed it as \"a splendid debut.\"  “Unusual perspectives and striking compositions and images make for a dynamic and intriguing book. This title has potential for classroom use—when studying paleontology or evolution, preparing for a field trip, or doing creative writing projects. All in all, a title that children will love.”—\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Awesome is the only word for this wordless picture book.”—\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In beautifully composed spreads, the museum’s glowering sandstone hues are imaginatively played off against the early world’s innocent sky blue and vegetable green, the tiny, lithe bird against the lumbering primeval giants, flesh against bone, shadow against substance. A splendid debut.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, StarredEric Rohmann's first book for children, Time Flies, was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1995,\u003cbr\u003e and was called a splendid debut by Kirkus Reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric holds degrees in fine arts from Arizona State University and Illinois State University.  He is a former teacher, and has exhibited his artwork as numerous galleries and museums across the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eric is a painter, printmaker, and a fine bookmaker, and he lives outside of Chicago.","brand":"Dragonfly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303144902885,"sku":"NP9780517885550","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780517885550.jpg?v=1767742644","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/time-flies-isbn-9780517885550","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}