Time Flies

An interesting play on words of the title. The bird goes into a museum that contains an exhibit of dinosaurs and flies through time. As the bird flies among the exhibit, the dinosaurs become alive and the world become prehistoric again. A good look of how dinosaurs once looked and lived.

Bird flies into the museum in a storm and ends up with real dinosaurs in their habitat. He is eaten by a dinosaur and flies back out of the bony end of the dinosaur and back into the real world.

1995 Newbery Honor Book

Beautiful illustrations. ( )

Picture book of a bird travelling through a museum that turns into reality. Great for children who are unable to read and who enjoy dinosaurs and adventure. ( )

Time Flies by Eric Rohmann is a wordless book, nonetheless, the illustrations render the history about a bird travelling through history. Without one word written in the book, the reader is carried through the book by living pictures. The authour uses rather depressing colours such as brown hues, yellowish, etc. to create a scary mood, but painted the background (landscapes) with nice colours. This let the reader stand on the one hand in the book, travelling through history, but on the other hand being still bound to reality. There is a lots of movement going on in the book, At the beginning and at the end oft he book Rohmann does not use the full page, he created a frame, on the first page, similar to a window. This gives the reader the opportunity to deep in the book and leave it again. ( )