Time for School - (Orca Timeline) by Leah Payne (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Do you go to school?

If you are reading this book, chances are you do. Education allows us to learn about the world, develop new skills and fulfill our dreams for the future. But school can be dramatically different for children depending on things like where they live, how much money their families make and even what they look like.

Grab your tablet for a day at school in Ancient Rome. Take a class in a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse in the United States. Discover how nature schools and Indigenous land-based education work. Find out how technology and artificial intelligence (AI) is changing curriculums and how teachers, librarians and students are fighting book bans in schools. Time for School explores who learns, what we learn, where we learn, when we learn and how we learn in the past, present and into the future.

Review Quotes

"Readers embark on an engaging journey through the diverse landscapes of education. Readers will be drawn to the color and variety, while educators and librarians will appreciate how the art reinforces the book's central theme. Highly recommended for school and public libraries; this book bridges social science, history, and education. The narrative provides an illuminating, thoughtful, and rich exploration of schooling then and now."

About the Author

Leah Payne is a writer, editor, public librarian and mother. She holds a bachelor's degree in communication from Simon Fraser University and a master's degree in library and information studies (MLIS) from the University of British Columbia. Leah lives in British Columbia with her family. She loves reading and learning and would probably go to school forever if she could! Leah is also the author of Less Is More and Get Outside!, both published by Orca.

Paige Jung is a Chinese Canadian illustrator, muralist and artist from so-called "Vancouver", Canada. Using digital, gouache and acrylic mediums, Paige is known for her proficient use of color and gestural shapes to create illustrations that tell stories of connection, wonder, community and what makes us human. Paige is grateful to be creating, living and gathering on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.