Click here to read 12 Shape Books for Preschoolers That Are Simply Shape-tastic! on Hands On As We Grow®
Shapes are a towers woodcut of elementary mathematics and picture books are a wonderful way to introduce this important concept. Check out these favorite books well-nigh shapes from Rosemary D’Urso, the Library Mom!
Books are a unconfined way to not only introduce shapes but moreover teach children that the world virtually them is made out of shapes. Children can start to see how shapes can be combined to create everyday items.
12 Wondrous Books Well-nigh Shapes for Preschoolers
We hope you and your children have fun learning with these winsome books well-nigh shapes. Happy reading!
Affiliate links are included for your convenience and to help support Hands On As We Grow®.
Color Zoo
Author: Lois Ehlert, 1989
Best for: Ages 2-4
In this classic picture book, children will be amazed to see variegated animals worked with a variety of shapes stacked together. With each turn of the page, a new shape is highlighted using vivid colors and die-cut pages.
The final two-page spread presents all ten shapes together opposite boxes of colors making it easy to reinforce these two important concepts for children.
Big Box of Shapes
Author: Wiley Blevins; Illustrated by Elliot Kreloff, 2016
Best for: Ages 2-5
When Lulu and Max discover a box of shapes, there is no end to their imagination as they combine the shapes to make new creations.
Lulu and Max exude marvel and kindness as they share the shapes with each other and work as a team while they build.
Bright colors set versus a white preliminaries make the shapes hands identifiable.
This cheerful typesetting is a unconfined way to introduce shapes to young children and inspire them to experiment with their own shapes.
Walter’s Wonderful Web
Author: Tim Hopgood, 2015
Best for: Ages 2-5
Walter, a unswayable little spider, builds his web into a variety of variegated shapes only to be squandered yonder by the wind each time.
Finally, inspiration hits, and he combines all of the shapes to create a truly wondrous web that withstands the mighty gusts of the wind.
This typesetting not only provides a terrific introduction to shapes but moreover a nice lesson in persistence.
We Love Squares (Our Favorite Shapes series)
Author: Beatrice Harris, 2018
Best for: Ages 2-5
This nonfiction series pairs short, simple sentences with colorful photographs of everyday items in the well-spoken form of a shape.
While I wish there was an introductory page describing the nature of each shape first, this lulu nonfiction offering still successfully demonstrates that the world is made up of a variety of shapes.
This typesetting is perfect for promoting a shape scavenger hunt virtually a classroom or home.
There are six books in this series highlighting the pursuit shapes: circles, squares, triangles, diamonds, ovals, and rectangles.
Mouse Shapes
Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh, 2007
Best for: Ages 2-5
When three little mice hibernate from a cat in a pile of shapes, they discover that they can combine the shapes to make variegated objects.
A triangle and square quickly wilt a house, while a rectangle and a triangle form a tree, etc.
The brightly colored paper collages are very child-friendly and will inspire most children to cut or tear paper to create their own shapes.
Apples and Robins
Author: Lucie Felix, 2016
Best for: Ages 2-6
Children will welter in the trappy die-cut illustrations of this innovative book.
Using vibrant colors that practically pop off the page, children are presented with several shapes including circles, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, semi-circles, ovals, and squares.
The story itself focuses on an world tree that is the home to a family of birds. Readers will travel through a seasonal journey as the shapes are combined to create familiar objects such as apples, ladders, a birdhouse, etc.
The transformation of the shapes by the die-cut pages gives the typesetting a magical finger that children are going to love.
Circle Rolls
Author: Barbara Kanninen; Illustrated by Serge Bloch, 2018
Best for: Ages 3-6
Filled with cheerful colors, rhyming text, witty illustrations, and an action-packed storyline, this typesetting is perfect for introducing shapes to children.
A sneeze causes a uniting reaction of motion that highlights each shape’s attributes.
“Circle rolls, oval rocks, square sits like a box. Whirligig rolls, rectangle stands, triangle points without any hands.”
The playful illustrations use verisimilitude and size to highlight the shapes while the inclusion of glasses and stick figure-like stovepipe and legs gives them personality making this typesetting entertaining and educational.
When a Line Bends…A Shape Begins
Author: Rhonda Gowler Greene; Illustrated by James Kaczman, 1997
Best for: Ages 3-6
This excellent nomination for storytimes uses rhyming text to explain the characteristics of 10 worldwide shapes withal with examples of the everyday items they form.
“An octagon has many sides. All counted, there are eight. You see it at the corner. It tells the cars to wait.”
This typesetting is a lot of fun to read aloud and perfect for helping children wilt increasingly familiar with various shapes.
Shape Shift
Author: Joyce Hesselberth, 2016
Best for: Ages 3-6
This inventive typesetting introduces nine archetype shapes and encourages readers to use their imagination to see everyday objects when the shapes are combined.
This typesetting not only teaches shapes but moreover celebrates creativity. As an uneaten bonus, it demonstrates point of view, reminding children that there is not unchangingly a right or wrong answer.
This helps encourage children to take risks without worrying they might make a mistake.
The final double-page spread features spare combinations challenging readers, “What do you see?” It creates a perfect prompt for play-based learning.
Round is a Tortilla
Author Roseanne Greenfield Thong; Illustrated by John Parra, 2013
Best for: Ages 3-6
Like many books on shapes, this offering uses rhyming language to identify everyday objects made of shapes. What makes it stand apart, however, is its peek into the Hispanic culture.
Most of the Spanish words sprinkled into the text are easy to identify, but a glossary is located in the when to provide a translation and requite increasingly insight into the objects highlighted in the story.
This is a wonderful concept typesetting that not only helps teach children well-nigh shapes but moreover the world virtually them.
Shapes That Roll
Author: Karen Nagel; Illustrated by Steve Wilson, 2009
Best for: Ages 4-8
Rhyming text, unexceptionable colors, and slick paper make this lulu offering scrutinizingly irresistible to preschoolers. They will love pursuit withal as an anthropomorphic circle, triangle, and square lead them through an zippy world of shapes pointing out their variegated attributes.
While many of the shapes are not named in the main text, a two-page spread at the end introduces all of the shapes and invites readers to squint through the typesetting a second time to find them.
What’s your favorite typesetting well-nigh shapes? Share your favorite shape books in the comments!
Rosemary D’Urso is a school librarian turned stay-at-home mom who constantly racks up late fines to read that perfect typesetting with her kids just one increasingly time. She spends her days going on vita with her family, running, listening to audiobooks, and reviewing children’s books. She hopes her reviews will help parents and teachers find the weightier books for the children in their lives.
Discover your child’s next favorite typesetting at her blog, Librarymom.com. Follow all of Rosemary’s reading vita on Instagram, @librarymombooks.
