Description
Youngsters love to draw, yet they often lack the vocabulary to describe the shapes they see and create. This visual book of shapes describes angles, triangles, circles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and even scribbles, which may have indescribable shapes. The geometric patterns are colorfully presented, accompanied by short, simplified identifications of the shapes. The reader is asked to point out a specific form in a page filled with colorful designs. The idea for this book on shapes comes from the real Museum of Shapes, which exists in Germany. While this is a terrific idea to acquaint children with the myriad designs that can be seen everywhere, unfortunately, the book lacks hands-on activities for the youngsters, which would allow them to actively engage with the material presented here. They need shapes to cut out or hand draw, puzzles asking them to create or disassemble the shapes, and even various shaped stickies as additions, showing how these shapes can be assembled and reassembled to create individual designs. Such activities would stimulate engagement. The text, while simple and explanatory, lacks imagination. The wording should have some rhyme or rhythm to connect the reader with the engagingly colored geometric models.
