Ploof is a little cloud who's eager to make their first rainbow! But how? With your help, of course! Can you help Ploof find the right shape? Mix colors? Fly high to paint? Cheer Ploof on through the ups and downs of trying something new, follow…
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Shapes and Colours
Help your child learn basic concepts to build vocabulary and pre-literacy skills!
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- Join five animal friends as they start school in this delightful introduction to the school day, from getting dressed in the morning to home time. Charming illustrations depict the school day and some of the early years concepts including colours,…
- The hilarious Crayons are back in this celebration of our planet and their contributions to it -- white ice caps, green trees, blue oceans and skies, brown soil and even wheat!
- Partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes.
- Emet loves to paint. But grown-ups think he should spend his time doing more important things. When Emet stops doing what he loves, color disappears from his world. What does Emet discover within himself in order to bring color back into his life? A…
- Pete the Cat gets into colourful adventures while out walking in his new white shoes.
- In What's Your Favorite Color? fifteen beloved children's book artists draw their favorite colours and explain why they love them.
- This joyous book rejoices in the simple beauties of friendship, and reminds readers of all ages that it's good to have a group of pals.
- While taking a walk with Mouse, Bear meets many other friends and sees colours everywhere.
- With the turn of every page, see Little Green Monster's face gradually appear. Then, as the stars come out, get ready to say good night!
- Rather than use the same old colours, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.
- In this delicious forest, the bears are made of rectangular brownies, the goldfinches are triangles of lemon tart, and the butterflies are oval jelly beans. What child could resist learning shapes from such delectable creatures as these?
- Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colours live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.
- Ever since they were a dot and a speck, Circle and Square have been best friends....Then someone new comes along: a cool, exciting Triangle. And three starts to feel like a crowd.... With their friendship bent out of shape, can they put it back…
- Poet Joyce Sidman invites readers to search their worlds for round objects in nature.
- Did you know that a bunch of triangles together can build a bigger triangle? Or that stacking a lot of little squares makes one giant one? And when circles start bouncing around, all sorts of things can happen--houses and castles spring up,…
- A girl teaches a polar bear to see the colours in his environment as they take a trip around the world.
- A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn.
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