Apes Find Shapes : Magic Castle Readers Series

Magic Castle Readers

by Jane Belk Moncure

Four funny apes help Tracy find shapes in the objects around her, including the circle in a doughnut, the triangle in a kite, and the rectangle in a door.

Genres: Childrens, Mathematics, Fiction

30 pages, Library Binding

First published July 1, 1987

About the author

Jane Belk Moncure (born December 1926) is an American author of early childhood non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She has also written under the names Bruce Wannamaker and Jennie Davis.

Moncure has lived in Virginia and North Carolina. She worked in early childhood education for thirty-five years. She lives in Elon College, North Carolina.

Moncure is a creative and prolific author: there are millions of her books in circulation, and they are widely distributed in schools and libraries. Distribution has been primarily through The ChildsWorld, ChildrensPress and Scholastic. Her creations and works include My First Steps to Reading, My First Steps to Math, My First Steps to Science, Word Bird, The Soundbox Books, and The Magic Castle Series. Her works have been translated into British English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Malay. Belk Library, Elon University holds a collection of all published books by Moncure.

Jane Belk Moncure is a recipient of the C.S. Lewis Award and over the past 20 years, her works were recognized by numerous Awards. Most recently, in 2008, Jane received the Scholastic Teacher's Choice Award for her outstanding contribution to the My First Steps to Learning Program. --from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Christine Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Africa-inspired Storytime.

I am working with a cohort to plan Storytime programs. This book is very old-school...not bad, but I wouldn't have chosen it on my own. Unfortunately, I was able to read only a couple of pages when I totally lost my group. This was basically a DNF.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a young person, this book is way too wordy. The words were making me cross-eyed just to figure out how to read left to right.

[Miriam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one that I want to add to our home library, bc it does such a good job at engaging the child in learning their shapes. It gives lots of examples without being overwhelming.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series is fine.

[IfCatsCouldRead · Rating 2 out of 5]

I dislike this book. The idea is fantastic but the execution is not so much. It introduces children to circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. I don't like that it calls spheres - circles, cubes - squares, pyramids - triangles, and rectangular prisms - rectangles. I chose NOT to read the words on some pages since our class just went through shapes and 3D shapes so as not to confuse them.

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

great system of books to help teach children to read, each book shows one or more lessons on words, repetition or sound editions. this system has great colorful books with very simple books

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apes Find Shapes
Moncure, Jane Belk
This is a preschool book about teaching shapes to young readers. Its a good text to concept learning book.

[Mellanie C]

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