Judith Snyder

Little Kid Reaction: My boys really liked this book the first time, but the second and third readings were less challenging because they had memorized what the shapes were.

Big Kid Reaction: I loved the book the first time, but I found it less useful the second and third readings, as my boys predicted what the next page did with the shapes, instead of using their imaginations to think up something new. The punch line had already been thrown, and defeated the (my) purpose with reading the book. However, we used this book to jump in and create our own shapes and see what we could do with them. We took plain paper, drew a random shape, and tried to draw the rest of the picture around what we thought that shape started out to be.

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