This wonderful book gives children a fresh and informal introduction to both 2-D and 3-D shapes, as well as to concepts such as tessellation, symmetry, and pattern. Superb photographs celebrate the wealth of creativity that is possible by combining squares, triangles, and circles, or cubes, cylinders, and cones. Hands-on projects help give children a firm understanding of shape and encourage them to use their own creativity and imagination.
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David Goodman and Zoe Miller, partners in the design firm Silence, have created designs featured in international trend publications. They are renowned for helping clients explore and visualize their ideas. They designed two previous Tate children’s books: Color and A Is for Artist.
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ABC books. Number books. Shape books. All played out.
Hold on a sec. Similar to how a good singer can turn a corny song into a great one (have you checked the lyrics to Ignition (Remix) lately?), creativity can make a worn genre feel downright alive. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Color, David Goodman and Zoe Miller inject a refreshing sense of imagination into Shape. If you're going to start introducing youngsters to the world of the geometric, you can do no better than to put this engaging title in their hands. Shape quickly reveals itself as a labor of love. Photographs, cut paper, cloth, and found objects are carefully laid out, giving each page a palpable hand made quality. The book begins with basic shape introductions, but clocking in at 64 pages, Shape's length provide opportunities to go beyond the basic "this is a triangle"-type text. The breadth of originality is something to see. All of the shapes are presented and used in clever ways that will delight readers. Not only do we learn that a triangle "has three straight sides and three corners", but on the following pages we see triangular wood blocks used to create animals, and a forest of triangle-block trees (which is turned into a game as the text encourages readers to count the shapes). Beyond just triangles and squares, the book touches on elements of pattern, symmetry, and even three-dimensional shapes. Readers are often asked to interact with the pages through matching, naming, and searching activities. Glow-in-the-dark-ophiles will even find something to love here. There are definitely some retro elements present. There is a hint of a "PBS in the 80's" feel. The fact that most of the objects used to create the book have been around the block a time or two means that there's plenty of nostalgia present. Pac-Man ghosts, erector sets, vinyl 45s - heck, even wooden blocks may come across as foreign to some youngsters. These throwbacks are mixed in with newer media, however, so the overall effect doesn't give off too much of a "remember the good ol' days" vibe. And, honestly, the fact that many of the objects are not familiar to kids may increase interest, rather than discouraging it. Lovingly created, visually remarkable, yet basic enough to be shared with pre-readers, Shape is a book you should have on the shelf.
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interesting shape book,
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I think first review summarizes it well. This is not a typical (boring) shape book. Photographs are good quality and sometimes have a 3D look that invites one to touch the images. My son (English is not his first language) learned "semi-circle" on the first round. I liked that this book goes beyond simply naming the shapes, but also has a page for concepts such as symmetry, 3D shapes. I also liked illustrations of various games, e.g. tangram, printing with shapes, building objects/houses from simple shapes etc., that can be played with shapes.
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shapes sizes,
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Also bought the wooden puzzle from goodman directly, expensive to ship to US but more than worth it. Used paypal to pay for the puzzle, arrived promptly.
23 month old loves to play with the book and puzzle
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