Review: Tick-Tock Ted

Tick-Tock Ted

Written by Ruth Martin

Illustrated by Steve Whitlow

Publication date: 2011

Publisher: Pippbrook Books

ISBN: 978-1-84877-480-3

Summary/Back cover:

Learn to tell the time with Ted.  From breakfast through to bedtime, little ones will love to interact with the moveable clock hands as they follow the story of Ted's day.

Review:

My 3 year old received this book for Christmas, and it has already become a well-read book.  The story itself is irrelevant, to be honest - the part that he enjoys the most (and that, as a parent, I find the most useful part) is the picture of the clock on each page, that he can look at and then match the hands on the moveable clock to match.  The book has a blue hour hand and yellow minute hand, so it is user-friendly to teach children how to tell the time on an analogue clock.  

The clock seems fairly robust, so I think it will live up to many, many uses but I suspect that the pages may not last quite as long (they have a big hole through them, so the clock can be used).

I thoroughly recommend this as a book for teaching beginner clock-readers how to understand a clock face - I don't know what other books are out there that teach the same thing, but this one does the trick quite nicely.

My rating: 3.5 out of 5 - the story is a bit blah, but the clock part is fantastic.

Review written by Bronwyn