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Originally published 40 years ago, this book uses vivid illustrations and simple rhyming text by a noted author/illustrator to introduce the concept of shapes and sizes to curious young readers as he suggests how they can view the world in a new and exciting way. Full-color illustrations.
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
Forty years and many best-selling books later, Ed Emberley has produced a full-color edition of his initial foray into children's books. Printed on black paper, it pulsates with color, with familiar shapes leaping from the pages. As in his other books, he makes everyone feel as though they too could easily become artists. From HORN BOOK Spring 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Using intensified colors against solid black backgrounds, Emberley has really pumped up the visuals in this reissue of his 1961 debut. Above a catchy rhyme urging readers to look for the triangles, rectangles, and circles that everywhere abound, blizzards of geometric shapes float, combine, and recombine into arrays of stylized figures, both fanciful and everyday. Emberley closes by acknowledging that real fleas don't have wings, but his do, then flogs his three popular series of drawing titles. The idea's not as innovative as it once was, but young children will still pore over this bright, busy consciousness-raiser, then look up to see their world with new eyes. (Picture book/nonfiction. 4-6)
