Colors Versus Shapes

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: November 14, 2014

Review

This is a very amusing and informative picture book about shapes and colors. A group of colors and a group of shapes are competing against one another and being judged to see who this book will be about. The colors demonstrate how they can mix together and create secondary colors. Blue and yellow make green, are the shapes envious? The shapes show how they can form new shapes together, such as two triangles forming a square and they even bring out some of their special shapes: pentagon, hexagon, octagon and rhombus. They battle on. Who will win and end up in this book? Perhaps colors and shapes will learn that they can work together and that the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of their parts. This whole concept seems so clever and teaches children about colors and shapes in an entertaining way. The illustrations are perfect and the text is largely in cartoon bubbles in black, but the color names are in the appropriate color. I recommend this book highly and hope that it will be added to collections far and wide.

Overall Book Score: excellent