My First Book of Shapes: With Lift-Up Flaps & a Pop-Up, Too! [Hardcover]

Chuck Murphy (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

A fold-out format encourages young readers to lift the flaps on every page for a fun-filled introduction to simple shapes. By the author of My First Book of Colors and My First Book of Counting.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Gatefold flaps and pop-ups, multicolored type and a cheerful mouse cast add a modicum of pizzazz to these entrants in an overcrowded field. The alphabet book presents each letter in upper and lower case, once printed primer-style within triple-ruled lines and again on ladyfinger-shaped flaps. Lift the flap and find a captioned picture of something beginning with the featured letter (a smiling mouse plays the Xylophone; more smiling mice model Uniforms). At book's end, the mice assemble a pop-up alphabet. Atop the flaps of the companion book, the mice gambol across designated shapes--open the flaps to see a group of similarly shaped objects (behind "Circle" lie a target, wading pool, plate, hoop, etc.) Murphy intelligently pairs flat shapes with their three-dimensional counterparts--circle with sphere, square with cube, triangle with cone--although the technique backfires with the rectangle (how many of us refer to "cuboids"?). The finale compensates for this minor flaw, squaring the book with a carnival of pop-ups and cut-outs. Ages 2-5.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590463039
• ISBN-13: 978-0590463034
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,768,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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