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K-3
Illustrated by
Renée Graef.
This entry in the publisher's familiar alphabet-book series is packed with random facts about time. Each letter page contains a clumsy and/or dull quatrain ("U is for Units. / How to measure / time going by / during work or pleasure") and a softly rendered illustration of the idea, from almanac to pendulum to X (Roman numeral ten); a border-sidebar contributes lengthier scientific information.