Geoffrey Groundhog has become a local celebrity for successfully predicting how long winter will last. Everyone awaits his prediction each February 2, when he emerges from his burrow to look for his shadow. But Geoffrey’s fame has grown out of cont...
In the sleepy English market town of Stratford-upon-Avon, poet and playwright William Shakespeare is at work tending his garden when a maiden and a lad stop by to announce that a merry troupe of players is approaching. The troupe, on its way to Londo...
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Lively illustrations and fun, accessible text provide an account of the history of time and the evolution of keeping time, from following the sun and the moon to the huge clocks we use today....