A short glossary explains the cultural significance of the objects featured in the book, including mooncakes, dim sum, lucky money, and name chops.Ī Star in My Orange: Looking for Nature’s Shapes by Dana Meachen Rau As the narrator provides a tour of the shapes in her neighborhood, she also provides the reader a wonderful window into Chinese culture. The rhyming text in this book introduces shapes to young readers through the eyes of a young Chinese-American girl. Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong Young readers will delight in finding the shapes on each spread. The upbeat, rhyming text and colorful illustrations show children how shapes are created simply by bending a line. This book provides a clever and fun introduction to 10 different shapes that include squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles, ovals, stars, crescents, hearts and octagons. The bold colors will entice young readers to engage with circles, triangles, squares, ovals, rectangles, and crescents. For example, a turn of the page turns a tractor into a boat and an ice cream cone into a carrot. Young children will enjoy watching as one objects into another in this story. Again, turning each page reveals a new animal on one side and a description of a shape on the other. This book is designed with cutouts similar to Color Zoo, but this time with a focus on farm animals. Further, the book includes labels for each cutout shape to help children identify them.Ĭolor Farm is Lois Ehlert’s follow up to the very creative and beautiful Color Zoo. For example, a tiger’s face disappears to reveal a mouse, which disappears to reveal a fox. Then, as each page is turned, a new animal is revealed. Each page has a cutout such that stacking the pages together creates the image of an animal. Color Zoo features a very unique and clever design. This 1990 winner of the Caldecott Medal continues to delight young readers to this day. Children will be delighted to discover just how many shapes can be found in an open lunchbox or a hard-boiled egg. Shapes, Shapes, Shapes utilizes photos of urban landscapes, portraits, and still life to show letters, numbers, colors, opposites, and more. After reading this book, children are sure to begin spotting circles and squares all around in their everyday environment!Īnother selection from Tana Hoban, the striking photos in this wordless concept book will help young readers develop an awareness of and appreciation for the beauty everyday objects all around us. The excellent photography in this book will encourage children to see circles and squares in all manner of objects, like dishwashers, teapots, oranges, tires, and more! The book is wordless, making it perfect for young children to engage with all on their own. So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban Eventually the mice use the shapes to create all manner of clever images including a house, a wagon, and even a cat! This book is perfect for pairing with pattern blocks or other shape based toys that will allow children to create their own shape-based images like the mice in the story. This delightful book follows three little mice as they hide from a cat among a group of shapes. The book also includes a section for adults with suggestions for teaching basic geometry concepts to children. As children follow Triangle through his shapeshifting adventures, they learn about different shapes in a clever and engaging manner. He first becomes a quadrilateral, than a pentagon, then a hexagon, and so on. One day he gets bored and decides to visit a shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. This book follows the adventures of Triangle. Note: For more ideas and free printables to help kids learn shapes, see my teaching shapes to kids page. In this selection of books, you’ll find books perfect for introducing toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary students to a variety of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. In this post I’m sharing 15 fantastic books about shapes. As part of my efforts to teach them about shapes, we have read a number of books about shapes. And I find that they learn so much from all the books we read together. My kids absolutely love it when I or my husband read out loud to them. This post may contain affiliate ads at no cost to you.
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