Author: Anne Miranda
Illustrator: Eric Comstock
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Released: June 25, 2019
Format: Kindle, Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1481497213
Reviewer: Ellwyn Autumn
Rating: 5 Lemon Drops
A circle of events leaves a group of unsuspecting shapes twisted up inside a jungle gym and searching for help.
Review:
Book Summary:
A happy little circle gets caught up in a jungle gym. When her friend triangle tries to set her free, he suffers the same fate, as do an ellipse and a gang of big-hearted pentagons.
A straight and narrow line devises a clever solution that involves an abundance of ingenuity and a little teamwork. She, a prism, and a sphere, work together and in no time at all the jungle gym is heaved up and the shapes are free!
Opinion:
What a marvelous celebration of math, science, and out-of-the-box thinking! Anne Miranda has penned another story young readers will enjoy again and again.
The perky
rhyming pattern is catchy and fun; it begs to be read aloud. The various fonts throughout
the book draw the eye and add an attention-grabbing element youngsters will
appreciate.
A well-rounded cast of characters introduces a broad range of shapes not ordinarily seen in a children’s picture book. There’s also a shape gallery at the end, for readers to get to know the shapes even further.
Comstock’s retro-inspired illustrations are comical and capture the characters’ emotions. Their simplistic style is effective in showing children shapes are fun and not that complicated.
I give it 5
Lemon Drops!
Classroom Connection:
Targeted
Vocabulary: geometric, circle, triangle, square, rectangle, ellipse, cone,
star, cube, point, pentagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, line, prism, sphere,
polygon, tetrahedron
Tangled:
A Book about Shapes has
numerous applications in the classroom: mathematics (geometry), science
(levers), art, and literacy.
Mathematics
application- For beginners, the book can present simple shapes; for advanced students,
a focus on the more complex shapes can be done.
Science
application- A lesson on levers is ideal. Materials for the levers can be added
to the science and block centers.
Art
application- After a read-aloud of the book, students can design various pictures
formed from different shapes or make shape collages.
Literacy- Focus
on the rhyming words in the story.
Resources:
Let’s Learn Shapes Pinterest Board
About The Author:
When Anne was a little girl, she loved rhymes, especially the ones her mother and grandmother used to recite to her. Now that she’s all grown up, she enjoys writing them.
One such rhyme was "to market, to market to buy a fat pig, home again, home again jiggity jig!". But no one ever told her what happened to the pig when it got home.
She always wondered, so she wrote a funny book about a frazzled shopper who brings home one very naughty pig and a host of other uncooperative animals from the market.
Of course, they make a big
mess. What, oh what will she do? You'll have to read the book to find out! To
Market To Market, illustrated by the amazing Janet Stevens, has been translated
into Korean and is still enjoyed by kids all over the world.
Another wildly popular selection is Glad
Monster, Sad Monster, a collaboration with Caldecott Award-winning illustrator
Ed Emberley.
This colorful monster book, complete with tear out and storable
masks, has been translated into French and Spanish and is used world-wide to
help children identify and cope with their feelings. It's well-loved by parents
and teachers alike.
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