Shapes, Shapes, Shapes - Non-Fiction Picture Book

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
By Tana Hoban
(A Mulberry Paperback Book, Greenwillow Books, 1986)

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes is a wonderful nonfiction book about shapes.

In her book Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Tana Hoban showcases photographs of everyday life and objects. Big city items becomes simple shapes behind her focused camera lens. Nothing is more challenging and appropriate than hooking what we want children to learn to real-life examples.

KID KANDY:

Make your own book about shapes. Enlist your child to be the content producer and locate items in your home, neighborhood, or community that showcase circles, squares, diamonds, triangles, rectangles, and ovals. Take photos of the "scenes" chosen by your producer child.

Print out the photos. Use double stick tape and attach them to cardstock. Ask your producer to decorate the cover page with the book title (his or her choice) and brightly colored shapes. Staple the left edge to make your own book. Read and have fun identifying the shapes.

Or make a computer slide show or Power Point show with the photos. Help your child producer arrange the slides in the desired order. Label them, add music, or program the show with special computer effects. Enjoy the show!

Angie Quantrell loves books that incorporate photographs. In one of the books she has written, I Can Be More Like Jesus, Angie took photographs for the illustrations. Her graphic artist, Clay Allison, used a watercolor program on the photos to create a special look. Angie loved the process of helping with book illustrating.

I Can Be More Like Jesus is available through Woman's Missionary Union in the preschooler resources tab. Go to http://www.wmustore.com.