Synopsis
Shapes!
Circles
Squares
Triangles
Semicircles
Rectangles
What can you do with them? Anything! Everything! The only limit is your imagination.
Come on! Let's go on a shape caper!
Children's Literature
Smiling children of various ethnicities, all dressed in black-and-white patterned outfits, play and work together gathering big, colorful circles, squares, rectangles, semi-circles, and rectangles. They "shake, shake, shake" boxes of shapes and wonder what shape will pop out. Each shape is described by how the children are playing with them. They bounce round circles, tilt pointy triangles and stack squares on all four sides. The children decide to mix up all the shapes and use them to build fantasy objects. Circle wheels and semi-circle helmets help the children zoom on scooters. Rectangles and triangles are put together to make a rocket ship so they can soar to the moon. A semi-circle boat lets them sail by a triangle fish. The children have so much fun with shapes they want to find shapes in everyday objects. Author and illustrator Cathryn Falwell invites readers to point out the shapes they see at a birthday party decorated with circle balloons and semi-circle watermelon slices. This is an amusing early reader book that invites the reader to point out different shapes and colors and to use their imagination. Falwell shows shape pictures that are cut from newsprint and magazine pages, suggesting an activity that could help readers learn and use shapes.