My First Shapes

by D.K. Publishing

The ideal first book to introduce shapes to toddlers, My First Shapes is packed with colourful images to help build the foundation of early learning. Help your toddler learn all about a variety of shapes in My First Shapes. With colourful, bright pictures of lots of different shaped objects alongside clear word-labels your little one will discover stars, triangles, rectangles and and heart shapes. My First Shapes keeps early learning simple and fun for your little one. Perfect for encouraging children to build vocabulary and language skills, My First Shapes helps toddlers grasp early concepts. Your little one will love discovering all the shapes while holding the chunky pages of this board book. Read it together and help them turn the pages and learn all about shapes.

Genres: Childrens

Board Book

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Avonlea Rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

Am I the only one who puzzles over why kids' books always teach children that a ball is a circle, rather than a sphere? Or a box as a square, instead of a cube? I'm not sure that saying "cuboid" is harder to pronounce than "rectangle" or "sphere" harder to say than "circle." In fact, a child is already saying "cube" when they say "iced cube" - so why are we misleading them by insisting it's not a cube at all but a square, even though we're still calling it a cube? I think teaching them incorrectly is only going to lead towards confusion later on when they begin exploring geometry in school. But otherwise my daughter and I have enjoyed this series by DK - the books are sturdy and the pages well designed.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A board book introduction to shapes that gives young listeners the chance to trace each shape that will appear throughout the book in the opening spread. Numerous examples of each shape are pictured and consist of items that children regularly encounter (i.e. food, household objects etc).

Recommended for babies and toddlers.