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"Apples, strawberries, and cherries are Red, Red, and Red. Wait! How can they be just ""RED"" when they are different kinds of RED? Colors are a treasure worthy to be displayed in a museum! And in The Shape Story 3, they are. So many colorful hues with their shades, tints, and tones have been collected most passionately by the most unlikely friends...Shapes! Yes, Shapes! These are the most endearing outlines of geometric shapes you will ever meet. They can run, walk, and touch. They can think and feel. And with their big, large eyes, they can behold everything, even the beauty of colors. But they have a problem. They have found themselves stuck with an ever-present question mark. What are their names? An award-winning author of The Number Story series, Miss Anna is happy to unveil to you one of her favorites--The Shape Story. And as you may have already expected, Miss Anna's book on colors is again far from the typical and the ordinary. She always presents a subject in a different light. A dollop of cozy sweetness and a sprinkling of witty charm are her signature flavors. The Shape Story is all-of-the-above and truly one-of-kind. An educational-fiction written in verse and rhyme, The Shape Story is sure to delight little children, more so because the children themselves are the Shape's long-awaited teacher. After each colorful riddle posed by the Shapes, they are ushered into the rooms to name the colors in the beautiful exhibits (of reds, oranges, yellows, and the like). These are no common and ordinary color exhibits, mind you. In The Shape Story 3, red is not simply ""red"". There are pomegranate red, raspberry red, brick red, ruby red, candy apple red, blood red, and more 'red's. Since there are creative and imaginative ways to describe the color of red, why be satisfied with just RED? It sparks the imagination to know that colors can be described in different ways, albeit childlike ways, hence heightening the keenness in observation and clarity in expression. Isn't it grand that the children themselves can be the 'teacher' teaching the names of colors while being true to the child they are? Miss Anna's The Shape Story 3 will lead to big smiles and big imaginations! Buy the book and enter into the world where Shapes and colors await!"

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THE WISHING SHELF BOOK AWARDS 10th July 2020 TITLE: The Shape Story 3, The Shapes' Creative Color Collection AUTHOR: Miss Anna Star Rating: 5 'Rhythmical, accessible, this is a fun way for 6 - 8 year olds to understand colors and what they represent.' The Wishing Shelf REVIEW The Story Shape books just keep getting better and better! Let's look at the third in the set, where Miss Anna works her wonders with color. In a nutshell, this book will help children to identify a color in terms of how we feel when we see it. For example, red. As the author rightly says, it's 'vivid, 'bold' and can represent 'power'. Here's another example, yellow. It's 'cheery', 'merry' and 'bright'. And, as she says, 'a spurt of PIZAZZ'. Written in rhyme, this is a fun and accessible way for children to understand colors, what they represent, and how they can make us feel. As with all the books in the set, the drawings have a lovely 'hand-drawn' feel to them, as opposed to the computer generated 'Disney' books which I dislike. With sweetly-drawn 'shape' characters young children can relate to, this books offers teachers/parents a new, fun way of teaching colors and what they represent. Excellent! A 'Wishing Shelf' Book Review www.thewsa.co.uk 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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