We Are the Shapes
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
This funny, bold and characterful picture storybook introduces young readers to the shapes, as they meet the Squares and the Triangles.
Meet the squares. They are straightforward, supportive, and reliable. Squares like things to be even. But they don't get on very well with the Triangles...
The Triangles are edgy, sharp, and creative but they really don't like the Squares.
Circle comes across these two groups but just can't take a side! When a fight breaks out between the two shapes, will circle be able to help turn things around?
Featuring charmingly simple illustrations and plenty of puns, We Are the Shapes is a truly fun introduction to shapes that children will love to read time and time again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Puns propel this quarrelsome story about a circle's efforts to improve the antagonistic relationship between triangles and squares. Relying equally on geometry and typecasting, wry narration presents squares as "even," "honest," and "reliable" and triangles as "odd," "edgy" and "creative." While three-sided polygons embrace "different" as "fun," their four-sided rivals think "different is odd." Along comes circle—a figure that quintessentially doesn't "have sides." Circle's optimism offers a welcome respite from the other shapes' argumentative dialogue, and while initial efforts to get the lot to "roll with their differences" fall flat, a clever conclusion demonstrates the round character's skill at "turning things around." Set against blank white backdrops, spare drawings animate the shapely subjects with basic facial features and expressive brows. While punning provides occasional humor, the manufactured conflict infuses this geometric tale with a lingering negativity. Ages 4–6.
