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Cabin Fever Story Time: Shapes

Read in Monday Book Babies

By Doreen Cronin
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.  Picture Book.

Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber. More than simple toe touching, this pup stretches to ride a breeze, grab a snack from a tree, catch a wave. His bubble gum even gets in on the stretching action. POP! And he reminds us not to forget that we also need to stretch our imaginations (recognize that statue, anyone?). This interactive, energetic rhyming text will also help parents stretch out reading time with their youngsters.  --Publisher




Read in Tuesday Toddler Time

Written by Kelly Bingham
Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Greenwillow Books, 2014.  Picture Book.

In this companion to the acclaimed Z Is for Moose, Moose infiltrates a book about shapes (because he loves shapes, naturally) and it is up to his best friend, Zebra, to restore order and save the day. Another triumph from the award-winning team of Kelly Bingham and Paul O. Zelinsky.

This hilarious book manages to illustrate a fact or two about shapes while providing a three-dimensional stomping ground for best friends Moose and Zebra. What will happen? Who will save the day? It's all up in the air until the final page, where Moose and Zebra (and Cat, too) create a perfect—and perfectly heartwarming—ending. This stand-alone companion to Z Is for Moose features a multilayered story told through text, asides, conversation bubbles, and pictures. Themes of friendship, exploration, and conflict resolution—and of course the concept of shapes, including the shape of a book—make this an ideal read-aloud for the elementary school classroom and for home!  --Publisher




Read in Wednesday Preschool Time

By Michael Hall
Greewillow Books, 2011.  Picture Book.

A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.  --Publisher




Read in Wednesday Preschool Time

Go Shapes Go
By Denise Fleming
Beach Lane Books, 2014.  Picture Book.

Come along on a creative adventure with a gang of saucy shapes—and a mischievous mouse who wants to play too. Meet circles, rectangles, ovals, arcs, and a triangle and a square as well. Wait till you see what this crowd can make when they’re all working together!  --Publisher




Read in Thursday Toddler Time

Apples and Robins
By Lucie Félix
Chronicle Books, 2016.  Picture Book.

All you need for apples . . . are circles and the color red. In this extraordinary book, one thing transforms into another as each page turns—a circle becomes an apple, an oval becomes a bird, winter becomes spring. Constantly surprising and brilliantly constructed, Lucie Félix's Apples and Robins is full of the magic of shape, color, and imagination. All you need to do . . . is turn the page.  --Publisher




Read in Friday Cuentos

Escrito porAdam Lehrhaupt
Ilustrado por Matthew Forsythe
Editorial juventud, 2014.  Spanish Picture Book.

¡Cuidado! ¡Este libro es peligroso! No deberías abrirlo. Lo digo en serio. Luego no digas que no te lo advertí......  --Publisher

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