"Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. 
 You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. 
 Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. 
 Man alone measures time. 
 Man alone chimes the hour. 
 And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzingly fear that no other creature endures. 
 A fear of time running out." 
 A beautiful and poetic fable about the value of time. Father Time is on a mission to find out the meaning of time by helping a girl who wants too little time and a man who wants too much. 
 I half expected for each page to be followed by illustrations because the style reminds me of some of the picture book fairy tales that I loved to read while growing up. 
 3 1/2 stars