Let's Draw a Bird with Shapes

Children's Literature - Tiffany Erickson

Budding artists love to learn how to create identifiable objects from simple shapes, and even the youngest readers will be able to follow the directions provided by this volume. Each page offers one simple step in the creation of a shape bird, and there are even pictures for those that are too young to read. By the end, the artist has created a bird that looks like the illustration on the cover. The end material adds little to the text, but a picture of a real bird taken from the same prospective as the drawing is shown. This may help readers see the basic shapes found in other pictures. This is a very simple book with clear text and good instructions, but it might not contain enough substance for most library collections since its readers will learn how to draw only one bird in only one way. This book would be an asset to teachers working on a shape unit or a very special art unit. Reviewer: Tiffany Erickson