Publisher's Synopsis
A square is just a square;Until you add a roof,;Two windows and a door -;Then it's much, much more!;In simple quatrains, this colourful, lively book introduces basic shapes - square, circle, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond - and shows some of the familiar forms they take in the world around us. The final spread is a collage of all the different scenes from the book, encouraging children to spot as many different shapes as they can.;Dayle Anne Dodds has written a number of children's books. She was working in a kindergarten class when she developed the idea for "The Shape Of Things".;Julie Lacome is well known for her colourful collage illustrations. Already to her credit on the Walker list are "Sing a Song of Sixpence"; "A Was Once an Apple Pie"; "Walking Through the Jungle"; "I'm a Jolly Farmer" (1994), the novelty books "Funny Business" and "Hocus Pocus, and four titles by Pam Ayres, "Guess What?"; "Guess Where?"; "Guess Who?" and "Guess Why?".
