Tangled
A Story About Shapes
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- £9.49
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- £9.49
Publisher Description
“Clever fun.” —Booklist
“[A] delightful geometric tale…that kids will surely love.” —School Library Journal
From award-winning author Anne Miranda comes a rollicking rhyming story about an unruly gang of sixteen geometric shapes who get tangled in the neighborhood jungle gym until their friend comes to their rescue and order is restored. Perfect for fans of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!
One day a little circle,
just as happy as could be,
got caught inside a jungle gym,
and couldn’t wiggle free.
When the neighborhood shapes go climbing on the park jungle gym the last thing they expect is a tangle. First the circle, next the triangle and then the square. One by one soon all sixteen shapes are trapped. They push and pull and tumble and cry for help. Who will save them? One special shape can set the others free. Can you guess which one it is? This charming story makes learning the names of sixteen shapes as easy as a day in the park.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There is trouble at the playground when a pink circle gets stuck inside a jungle gym. In Comstock's retro-feeling illustrations, shape after colorful shape tries to help, each getting caught, until the playground structure is a chaotic tangle of geometric characters ("What a horror! What a mess! The shapes could not untwine," Miranda writes). Just then, a "straight and narrow line," comes bounding onto the scene. After eyeing the angles, she conjures up a plan and deputizes a prism and a sphere, who together form themselves into a lever and free their shape friends from the jam. Though how the lever's force does what the stuck shapes cannot is not particularly clear, the characters' willingness to help and their collaborative problem-solving make for an animated tale of community. Postscript material includes a chart of geometric shapes found in the book. Ages 4 8.
