Just a Second : a Different Way to Look At Time

Pamela Paul: Jenkins isn't here to lecture but to enlighten. With a dazzling array of science and nature facts on the order of Ripley's Believe It or Not, he succeeds in teaching children about time even as he's bound to pique their interest in a wide variety of behaviors, animal…human…and mechanical…the material is organized and arranged with care by Jenkins, whose meticulous cut-paper collage illustrations are detailed and yet unfussy. —The New York Times