Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 Hours in the Stone Age | 2021 | Rob Lloyd Jones | Buy |
| 2 | 24 Hours in Space | 2022 | Rob Lloyd Jones | Buy |
The Usborne 24 Hours In… series takes a distinctive approach to children’s nonfiction: rather than presenting facts in a reference format, each book follows a child protagonist through a single day in a particular time or place. The result is something closer to narrative nonfiction, where historical or scientific information is woven into the story of a day rather than presented as facts to be memorised.
24 Hours in the Stone Age (2021) and 24 Hours in Space (2022) are the two titles Rob Lloyd Jones contributed to this format. Both take settings that can feel remote to young readers and make them concrete through the lens of daily experience. What did you eat? Where did you sleep? What happened when something went wrong?
The two-book series gives a taste of what the format can do, and both titles work well as standalone reads or as gifts for children who enjoy history and science.