Shapes

by Jacques Duquennoy

Overview

Winner, Chicago Public Library Best Board Books of the Year (2018)

Zoe and Zack are best friends. They do everything together! Armed with paintbrushes, Zoe and Zack start drawing circles, squares, and triangles. With just basic shapes, they can learn and draw . . . just about anything!
• Award-winning series
• Perfect for learning important early concepts
• Sturdy construction with fun acetate pages

Fans of Zoe and Zack: Shapes will also enjoy the other books in the series including Colors, Numbers, and Opposites.
• Books for babies to 3-year olds
• Books for preschool and kindergarten
• Fun family read-aloud book

"Sure to inspire young artists everywhere." –Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782747086998
Publisher:	Tourbillon
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Series:	Zoe and Zack Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Jacques Duquennoy was born in the town of Corbie in northern France. He studied art before first becoming a sales representative selling educational materials, then an editor, and later a teacher. In 1994, he published Le Dîner Fantôme (The Ghost's Dinner, originally published by Albin Michel, published in the US by Golden Books) and became a full-time children's author. He lives in Amiens, France.

Editorial Reviews

"Conceptually elegant, visually clean, and sure to inspire young artists everywhere." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2018-03-27
A charming lesson for young Michaelangelos and O'Keeffes on drawing geometric shapes—and from them, simple representational images.Artist-turned-educator-turned-children's book creator Duquennoy has created an entertaining and inventive vehicle to teach youngsters both basic shapes and some simple drawings that can be made with them. As with the simultaneously published companion volume, Opposites, this book makes clever use of die-cut pages, here combined with clear acetate windows to show children how simple lines become familiar shapes, then toys and animals. Zack the chameleon draws a curved semicircle on one page; on the facing page, Zoe the zebra can be seen drawing a complementary semicircle on the clear window between them. When the page is turned, the two curved lines combine to form a circle. Zack draws more circles, and Zoe does the same, in seemingly random patterns, until a turn of the page creates a composite image of a teddy bear. Squares can be used, the two friends suggest, to draw a robot. Triangles are used to draw fish. All three shapes can be combined to construct a rudimentary but clearly recognizable "beautiful bird…ready to fly high in the sky." It's an admirably simple device to encourage crayon aficionados with still-developing motor skills to make the jump from scribbles to basic representational drawing.Conceptually elegant, visually clean, uncluttered—and sure to inspire young artists everywhere. (Board book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews