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Shapes and Colours

Help your child learn basic concepts to build vocabulary and pre-literacy skills!

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  • 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…
    Picture Book, 2024[Toronto] : Tundra Books, 2024. — JP Clant
  • 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,…
    Picture Book, 2024London : Usborne, 2024. — JP Brook
  • 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!
    Picture Book, 2024New York : Philomel, 2024. — JP Daywa
  • Partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes.
    Picture Book, 2017Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017. — JP Barne
  • 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…
    Picture Book, 2022Wood-Ridge, N.J. : The Little Press, 2022. — JP Chen
  • Pete the Cat gets into colourful adventures while out walking in his new white shoes.
    Picture Book, 2010New York, NY : Harper, 2010, c2008. — JP Litwi
  • In What's Your Favorite Color? fifteen beloved children's book artists draw their favorite colours and explain why they love them.
    Picture Book, 2017New York : Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. — JP Car
  • 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.
    Picture Book, 2015New York : Scholastic Press, 2015. — JP Rosen
  • While taking a walk with Mouse, Bear meets many other friends and sees colours everywhere.
    Picture Book, 2014New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014. — JP Wilso
  • 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!
    Picture Book, 2013New York : LB Kids, 2013. — JP Ember
  • 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.
    Picture Book, 2011New York : Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2011. — JP Carle
  • Sweet Shapes

    a Forest of Tasty Shapes

    Medina, Juana, 1980-
    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?
    Picture Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, 2018. — JP Med
  • Mixed

    a Colorful Story

    Chung, Arree
    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.
    Picture Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — JP Chu
  • 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…
    Picture Book, 2017New York City, NY : Balzer + Bray, 2017. — JP Col
  • Poet Joyce Sidman invites readers to search their worlds for round objects in nature.
    Picture Book, 2017Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — JP Sid
  • 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,…
    Picture Book, 2016Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016. — JP Bor
  • A girl teaches a polar bear to see the colours in his environment as they take a trip around the world.
    Picture Book, 2016New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016. — JP Kon
  • A young girl walks through the bustling city, while a pigeon flies above, both spotting hidden shapes at every turn.
    Picture Book, 2016New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — JP Mur