Time Flies

A toy dinosaur comes to life and encounters real prehistoric creatures in this wordless picture book. The story flows through full-page oil paintings that fill each spread. The artwork uses dark tones and dramatic perspectives to create movement and tension. The dinosaur moves through space and time as the pages turn. The book explores imagination, reality, and the blending of past and present through its visual narrative. These themes emerge naturally through the progression of images rather than through text or explicit messaging.

Readers note this wordless picture book captures children's imagination through its simple premise of a bird encountering a T-Rex skeleton in a museum. Readers liked: - The detailed oil paintings and use of perspective - How it encourages kids to create their own narrative - The dream-like quality of the illustrations - Its ability to engage both dinosaur fans and reluctant readers Readers disliked: - The brief length (32 pages) - Limited story development - Some found it too abstract for very young children Ratings: Goodreads: 3.9/5 (1,074 ratings) Amazon: 4.4/5 (31 ratings) From reader reviews: "The paintings pull you right into the story" - Goodreads reviewer "My 4-year-old was confused by the abstract nature" - Amazon parent "Perfect for teaching visual storytelling" - School librarian on Goodreads "Wish it was longer - we finished too quickly" - Amazon reviewer

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🦖 Time Flies was Eric Rohmann's first published book and won a Caldecott Honor in 1995 🎨 The book tells its story entirely through pictures, without any written words, allowing readers to create their own narrative 🖼️ Rohmann created the illustrations using oil paints, giving the dinosaurs a rich, realistic appearance that seems to leap off the page ⏰ The story plays with the concept of time by having a modern-day bird fly into a natural history museum and travel back to the age of dinosaurs 🏆 The book helped establish Rohmann's signature style of detailed, dramatic illustrations, which he would later use in his Caldecott Medal-winning My Friend Rabbit