Vintage Set The Clock Dorothy N. King Green HC Kids Time Story USA 1942

Author: Dorothy N. King

Book Title: Set the Clock

Format: Vintage hardcover children's picture book with interactive novelty clock

Publisher: Franklin Watts, Inc., New York; copyright 1942 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.

Publication year: Copyright 1942.

Language: English; genre: children and young adults; narrative type: illustrated fiction picture book with educational elements

Topic: Learning to tell time, clocks and daily routines, a little girl named Joan moving through her day from morning to bedtime in simple rhyming verse.

Intended audience: Young children ages approximately 4–8, early readers, parents, and educators introducing the concept of telling time.

Details: Story follows Joan hour by hour through everyday activities such as waking up, eating breakfast, going to school, playing, and preparing for bed, with short verses and matching scenes that invite children to set the clock to the correct time for each event.

Illustrations: Color artwork of a decorative mantel clock and domestic scenes on each spread, with a round clock face printed on a central disk and framed by folk-inspired floral borders.

Features: Movable clock face with rotating hour and minute hands mounted on a central disk, circular die-cut openings that allow the clock to appear on each page, printed description from the dust jacket flap explaining the interactive concept, and author credit also referencing earlier titles Find the Animal, Help the Farmer, and Fix the Toys.

Country of origin: Printed and bound in the United States of America.

Pricing: Front dust jacket flap lists original publisher's price as $1.00.

Keywords: Set the Clock Dorothy N. King Franklin Watts Harcourt Brace 1942 vintage children's hardcover picture book movable clock learning to tell time Joan USA