The Very Fine Clock

Ticky is a clock who lives with Professor Horace John Morris and reliably keeps the household on time. After the professor’s friends propose granting Ticky a professorship, he declines because of his concern for the other clocks. The story also enters the hours when the professor is away: the house has been cleaned, and its clocks converse and share stories from their own lives. The book includes black-and-white illustrations.