Sweeney, Joan

Describes the relationship between a second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century and millennium as measurements of time.

Illustrations and simple text teach children about different units of measure.

Hector and Henriette, the most famous frogs in France, befriend an old painter in a battered straw hat named Monet.

A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.