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My Very First Book of Shapes

(Part of the My Very First Book Series)

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Format: Board book

Condition: Very Good

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Book Overview

Can you find what is round? What is square? In this bilingual English / Spanish edition from Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, children can find the bottom half of a page that matches the top half. Find the right pairs, and you will learn to identify all kinds of shapes. From dome-shaped ladybugs to diamond-shaped kites, this clever board book makes learning fun. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 4 stars
Future Librarian reviews "My Very First Book of Shapes

In his acceptance speech for the ALA Laura Ingalls Wilder medal, Eric Carle referenced that he appreciated a description of his books as being "literature for the not-yet and just-about-to-be-reader" (Carle, 2003, 424). This time, Carle is teaching his almost readers about shapes through reincarnations of familiar characters from his other stories (the watermelon from a caterpillar reminiscent of the infamous Very Hungry,...

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Rated 4 stars
My daughter enjoys this!!

Just for a little background info on me, I have a BA in English as well as psychology. I worked as a children's library assistant for my first four years out of college. I'm also a mommy to a precious 2 year old daughter, Claire. Claire loves flipping through this book and although I'm not sure how much she's getting intellectually from it, she sure has fun!

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Rated 5 stars
One of the best

It is one of the best introduction to shapes books I've seen. It has a wider variety of shapes than most books do. Each shape is also labeled and with the variety of shapes, beginning readers will be introduced to words they may not have had to read before. For instance, Sean has now learned the word almond. Of course the book has the lovely paper collage illustrations by Eric Carle which gives the book a vibrancies and personality...

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Rated 4 stars
So far so good

My 10 month old daughter, Kylie is starting to show interest in the book which means that in another week or so she will be staring at all the pages. It's a good book for children to learn shapes from.

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Rated 4 stars
FROM A GRANDMOTHER'S POINT OF VIEW

A VERY GOOD BOOK FOR TEACHING SHAPES...MANY SHAPES AND THE HALF PAGES YOU CAN PLAY NUMEROUS GAMES....WHEN THEY GET BORED THEY CAN STOP & PICK IT UP AGAIN TO START WHEREVER... DO NOT HAVE TO START AT THE FIRST PAGE ....GREAT BOOK TO START AT THE BACK & WORK FORWARD

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