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Shapes are amazing! Yes, they are! And each one of them is without par! Shapes inspire ideas! Shapes illuminate solutions! Shapes illumine new perspectives! Imagine! Your young child comes across a poster that presents the basic shapes. Is your child excited? Is he/she in any way inspired? Far from it! The shapes are lifeless and immovable. They are stuck on the wall as matter-of-fact designs. You child glazes over the groups of lines and then moves on to find something more entertaining and worthwhile. But WAIT! Shapes ARE worth their while. Yes, they seem like uninteresting designs, but these are designs that have been esteemed and loved for thousands of years.The artifacts big and small of the ancient world are replete with these shapes. And even today, shapes have far reaches in the world of architecture, art, math, and science. The influence they have is still great, and the potential they carry for a creative child is enormous! So imagine. Your young child comes across Miss Anna's Shape Story 1. The eyes grow big and twinkle as these shapes talk, trapeze in the air, and blow bubbles with their friends. Your child learns their names and starts to see shapes in everything. And then, your child starts to wonder... 'What can I build with shapes?' An educational fiction written in rhyme, Miss Anna's The Shape Story 1 introduces the basic geometric shapes to young children with the help of special new friends, the Shapes. Yes, you heard it right. Shapes! With eyes that can see and with limbs that can walk, jump, and climb, the charming Shapes guide the child through their world where shapes are just a knock away, literally. Miss Anna's books are always full of jolly surprises. Her stories serve not only to entertain but also to empower a child to learn and to see things in creative and new ways. As an aside, she likes to tie in perfectly-sized morsels of history as well. Miss Anna believes that learning should be a joyful and memorable experience, a memory that is to be shared with the parent reading the story to them. Buy the book, snuggle close to your child, and enter into the world of Shapes together! Every child is born creative. Further awaken the 'creative' in your child with The Shape Story! Do get ready to knock on some doors!

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"THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 30th June 2020 Star Rating 4.5 'Educational, accessible, perfect for young children.' REVIEW If you ever thought a 'shape' was just, well, a shape, then you thought wrong. In this delightfully illustrated picture book, Miss Anna not only looks at the circle, the triangle, the oval, and a host of others, she also looks at the origins of the words (Latin, French) and also where you might find them. For example, the square in Latin is quadra and in French it is esquare. Written in rhyming verse, this is a well-paced, educational picture book where every shape is 'hidden behind a door'; I liked this, as it grabs the young reader, enticing them to turn the page. The author, with the help of the illustrator, also attempts to give every shape a 'character': a diamond in a hat, a grinning hexagram - it's all good fun. To sum up, I would happily recommend this book to any infant or primary school. It's not overly long, it's very educational and, above all, it's accessible for young children. An Interview with Miss Anna An Awarding-winning Author of The Number Story Series, Miss Anna wrote The Shape Story books for her four children, especially for her youngest. We asked her why, since there are already a great many children's books on colors and shapes, thousands in fact, some being more well known than others. At this, she replied that she envisioned a different kind of story-telling. She wanted to write a story that is more than a bulletin board of facts. That is not to say that she does not like facts. She does. Her books are full of ""nuggets of knowledge"" as she calls it, but they are nuggets packaged naturally within the story. She imagined a book that will speak to the child directly as if the child is actually there with the characters and a story that will be loved by the whole family, even the older siblings. Like adults, children do not judge a book by its cover. They too gauge the content and how the content is presented, and they are most difficult to please. In fact, they are the harshest critics, and Miss Anna has four of them at home. Searching her mind and heart, she says she wanted to write a story (about colors and shapes) that will be engaging, informative, and educational, and yet still be warm, friendly, welcoming, and full of childlike mirth (for they are still children). She says beautiful illustrations are important, but adds that if the content does not pique the interest or strike the fancy of an adult reader, you can half expect the child to toss that book aside, never to pick it up again. Hence, The Shape Story, which is four stories in all, is the beautiful outcome of her imaginative playing with her children. So, here there are, four new stories that will sweep your child (and you) into a world of shapes and colors! The Shape Story 1: The Shapes and Their Names The Shape Story 2: The Delightful World of 3D Shapes The Shape Story 3: The Shapes' Creative Color Collection The Shape Story 4: The Shapes Discover How to Make Colors"

THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 30th June 2020 Star Rating 4.5 'Educational, accessible, perfect for young children.' REVIEW If you ever thought a 'shape' was just, well, a shape, then you thought wrong. In this delightfully illustrated picture book, Miss Anna not only looks at the circle, the triangle, the oval, and a host of others, she also looks at the origins of the words (Latin, French) and also where you might find them. For example, the square in Latin is quadra and in French it is esquare. Written in rhyming verse, this is a well-paced, educational picture book where every shape is 'hidden behind a door'; I liked this, as it grabs the young reader, enticing them to turn the page. The author, with the help of the illustrator, also attempts to give every shape a 'character': a diamond in a hat, a grinning hexagram - it's all good fun. To sum up, I would happily recommend this book to any infant or primary school. It's not overly long, it's very educational and, above all, it's accessible for young children. An Interview with Miss Anna An Awarding-winning Author of The Number Story Series, Miss Anna wrote The Shape Story books for her four children, especially for her youngest. We asked her why, since there are already a great many children's books on colors and shapes, thousands in fact, some being more well known than others. At this, she replied that she envisioned a different kind of story-telling. She wanted to write a story that is more than a bulletin board of facts. That is not to say that she does not like facts. She does. Her books are full of nuggets of knowledge as she calls it, but they are nuggets packaged naturally within the story. She imagined a book that will speak to the child directly as if the child is actually there with the characters and a story that will be loved by the whole family, even the older siblings. Like adults, children do not judge a book by its cover. They too gauge the content and how the content is presented, and they are most difficult to please. In fact, they are the harshest critics, and Miss Anna has four of them at home. Searching her mind and heart, she says she wanted to write a story (about colors and shapes) that will be engaging, informative, and educational, and yet still be warm, friendly, welcoming, and full of childlike mirth (for they are still children). She says beautiful illustrations are important, but adds that if the content does not pique the interest or strike the fancy of an adult reader, you can half expect the child to toss that book aside, never to pick it up again. Hence, The Shape Story, which is four stories in all, is the beautiful outcome of her imaginative playing with her children. So, here there are, four new stories that will sweep your child (and you) into a world of shapes and colors! The Shape Story 1: The Shapes and Their Names The Shape Story 2: The Delightful World of 3D Shapes The Shape Story 3: The Shapes' Creative Color Collection The Shape Story 4: The Shapes Discover How to Make Colors

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