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Stripes and squares in this bright children's book

Zebra Stripes Go Head to Toe - Sheryl Shapiro, Simon Shapiro

This book started off strong with squares even though I was looking for a book about stripes.  Squares can be all kinds of things and the author lets us know that with great illustrations and simple and suggestive wording.  A big concept of a square being a cube is explained and repeated a few times on a couple different pages. From there we jump immediately into stripes.  A few words associated with stripes were not what I had expected but they were done with illustrations to match.   I wondered where this book was headed and I started to wonder what age the author was gearing this book towards.  With simple sentences using words like slats, slurping, and bands entering into the picture, I wasn’t ready for that.  I am used to the old typical words associated with stripes so reading these words in a book geared for 3-5 year olds threw me for a loop.  I loved how the author did the page numbers at the bottom, changing it up on the bottom of each page to reflect the topic of the page. How wonderful and unique is that! Change is good and reading this book was definitely a big change for me.

 

I like the concept of introducing different words into a child’s vocabulary at a young age. Showing bright and bold pictures to illustrate that concept helps to identity that idea and I am glad that the author has done that in this book. I hope that whoever reads this book to a child explains and points out these words if they are new to them, so they can understand them.  Its fun to read books to kids’ and it’s also fun if they learn something.  This book hopefully will help you and your child point out other things in your lives that have stripes and squares shapes.

Thank you NetGalley for the copy of this book.