Just a Second: A Different Way to Look at Time by Steve Jenkins

Jenkins, Steve. Just a Second: A Different Way to Look at Time. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. 32p.  

Through his signature torn- and cut-paper collage illustrations, renowned author and illustrator Steve Jenkins depicts amazing things that happen in our world in one second, minute, hour, day, month and year. Charts at the end of the book include "Very Quick..." versus "Very Long...," "A History of the Universe," "Earth's Human Population," "Life Spans" and "The History of Time and Timekeeping."

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