"JUVENILE NONFICTION / Concepts / Counting & Numbers" . . . . "Just a second"@en . . "\"This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year. What happens in a second? A gnat beats its wings 1000 times. A hummingbird beats its wings 75 times. A shrew's heart beats 13 times. A bat squeaks and listens for an echo 10 times. A dropped stone falls 16 feet. Earth travels 18 miles in its trip around the sun. A cheetah can run 100 feet\"--"@en . . . . . . "Juvenile works"@en . . "\"There's more to time than the tick of a clock. In this book by science author and illustrator Steve Jenkins, [the reader will] discover some unexpected ways to think about time, how it passes and how we measure it.\" --Cover, p. [2]."@en . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / General" . . "JUVENILE NONFICTION / General" . . "Nature." . . "JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / General (see also headings under Animals or Technology)" . . "Time." . .