From the title, you know it is going to be a book about time. A little boy gets told by his family "just a minute" but takes longer. When it comes his turn and he says just a minute it back fires on him so then the family teaches him all the ways to define what a minute really is.
This book is good to teach children how to tell time. It is basically about a little boy who learns just what a minute is...he hears his family telling him all the time, "in just a minute." This book is very appropriate to teach beginning math.
Time is discussed in this book in a way that is easy for students to understand. It uses real life examples of things everyone does in a day and tells an actual amount of time it takes to complete them. Often we say just a minute, when that is not actually how long it will take.
I can use this book to explain what it means to not take things literally and what an expression is. I can ask them if they know an expression that they have heard and use.
my daughter liked this book. we often say just a minute and it was a good way for us to discuss what it is meant to say just a minute. I would recommend this book to others.