Line and Circle

This is a delightful book about shapes. It is simply told, starting with ‘One line. Many lines. One circle. Many circles.’ The shapes are stark, brightly coloured, and nicely composed on the page. The development is more truthful than most picture books about shape – we are told that ‘Line is a star. Circle is the moon. Line is a table. Circle is the plate.’ That is, the lines are being used to represent objects. This is a change from having to find the shapes in the illustrations as if they are somehow intrinsically there, rather than a device to represent 3D on a page. A must for monolingual and multilingual children alike. (Available in 21 dual language editions.)