Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


Clocks and More Clocks
By: Pat Hutchins
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Dinosaur Train
By: John Steven Gurney
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Does Jesse travel back in time or is an imaginative jaunt when he boards a train with a...

Telling Time
By: Jules Older
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Time isn't an easy concept for kids to grasp, but young readers will delight in learning all...

The Clock Struck One: A Time-Telling Tale
By: Trudy Harris
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book

Time Flies
By: Eric Rohmann
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A wordless time-travel adventure and a meditation on the scientific theory that dinosaurs were...

Time Train
By: Paul Fleischman
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Join Miss Pym's students as they take a memorable train trip across the U.S. to a time and...

Train Leaves the Station
By: Eve Merriam
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Water in the Park
By: Emily Jenkins
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A catalog of ordinary events that occur in a park between sunrise and sunset, these scenarios...

What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile?
By: Judy Sierra
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Age Level: 6-9 years old


Big Papa and the Time Machine
By: Daniel Bernstrom
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A heartfelt journey into African American history. When a little boy is feeling afraid to go to...

Carnival at Candlelight
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House series)
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Flotsam
By: David Wiesner
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Gold in the Hills: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Rush
By: Candice Ransom
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve
By: Mary Pope Osborne
Age Level: 6-9 years old

How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
By: Jessie Hartland
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The history of the Hatshepsut sphinx: from its carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the...

It's All Greek to Me
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In this installment of friends known as the Time Warp Trio, Joe, Fred, and Sam meet key figures...

Just a Second
By: Steve Jenkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In just a second, a bat can make 200 calls, a black mamba snake can slither 24 feet, four babies...

Me Counting Time: From Seconds to Centuries
By: Joan Sweeney
Age Level: 6-9 years old

My First Book of Time
By: Claire Llewellyn
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nine O’Clock Lullaby
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Tar Beach
By: Faith Ringgold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Cassie doesn't have to actually go to the beach; she's got her very own "tar...

The First Drawing
By: Mordicai Gerstein
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An illustration of a contemporary boy with pencil in hand stands in front of a blank piece of...

The Magic School Bus: In the Time of the Dinosaurs
By: Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Everyone's favorite science teacher is back as Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a journey...

Ticktock Banneker's Clock
By: Shana Keller
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The story of 18th century African American scientist Benjamin Banneker and his three-year...

Time Zones
By: David Adler
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Why is the time different in New York and in Tokyo at the same moment? How time zones were...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


A Wrinkle in Time
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
How the Murray children search through time to find and save their missing scientist father...

Anno's Sundial
By: Mitsumasa Anno
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Explains how the earth's movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have...

Dinosaur Empire! Journey through the Mesozoic Era
By: Abby Howard
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs with fifth-grader Abby and her neighbor—Ms....

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
By: James Gurney
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
In this fantasy classic, young readers imagine an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked...

Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio series)
By: Jon Scieszka
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
As a gift from his magician uncle, Joe receives The Book setting into motion a series of...

On the Blue Comet
By: Rosemary Wells
Age Level: 9-12 years old
The Great Depression changed everything for 11-year-old Oscar and his widowed dad. Oscar's...

Secrets of Stonehenge
By: Mick Manning
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones...

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By: Brian Selznick
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Image and text combine in a unique presentation to tell the story of an orphan boy who lives...