Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes [Board book]

Julie Aigner-Clark (Author), Nadeem Zaidi (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2001 | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Baby Einstein

Shapes invites babies and young children to identify different shapes in bold, graphic illustrations featuring the Baby Einstein characters. Playful poems will inspire children to seek out shapes in the world around them.

Product Details

• Board book: 16 pages
• Publisher: Baby Einstein Co (October 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786808098
• ISBN-13: 978-0786808090
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, September 19, 2003

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Sara Swihart (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes (Board book)

When I was majoring in education, I bought a bunch of books for my classroom. I bought this book because I thought it would be a creative way to teach SHAPES.

Each page has a little 4 line rhyme that really got my attention. It was kind od sing-songy and describes the shape.

The pictures are very bright and colorful. The pictures are also of the shape the poem was about.

The best way to encourage a child to read is to have books in the home.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an outstandingly book!, May 12, 2002

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History_of_Art_Geek (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes (Board book)

Julie Aigner-Clark is a genius! Her inventive products, exceptionally creative, are designed to entertain children while they learn. "See and Spy Shapes," is no exception. The cleverly written text is metrical in style, and teaches shapes and counting in an imaginative way - through "seeing and spying", the object by means of example. For instance, the reader sees a rabbit sitting in a garden with various items scattered about, and the poem on the left side of the book reads, "A CIRCLE is a crazy thing it has no sides, just one round ring. You'll see a CIRCLE on my nose - now find five more beneath my toes." The FIVE circles beneath the rabbit's toes are: a radish, a head of lettuce, an onion, a bug, and a watermelon.

Each page of this little board book features a different poem, animal, and shape. Additional shapes include: triangle, square, oval, rectangle, star, and diamond. The illustrations are brightly colored, and are highly contrasted to the background, creating emphasis to stimulate babies interest, while providing lessons on shapes, numbers and counting, colors, animals and other everyday objects for preschoolers. This is an outstanding book! Birth and up.

On April 28, 2002 amesiowa, reviewed the wrong book! She commented on "Puzzling Shapes: A Puzzle Book", by Baby Einstein, not "See and Spy Shapes."

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!, June 1, 2002

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Brittany Hall (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Einstein: See and Spy Shapes (Board book)

My daughter is in love with this book and she is only 8 months old! The poetry is wonderful and this book also incorporates counting and colors with the shapes ("find 5 more shapes like mine" etc). The illustrations are great and keep her attention. All of the Baby Einstein series are wonderful!