Minni Favorite Books – December
Our Favorite December Books
This month we’re circling back to the basic building blocks of art and design… SHAPES! These star stories show us how simple shapes make up our world. At Minni we’re always angling for every little artist and designer to develop a well-rounded visual vocabulary. When we can recognize and identify shapes, we’ve got to have the first pieces of the puzzle. That’s why we’re excited to highlight these multidimensional stories, designed to form understanding and stretch the imagination!
The Game of Shapes by Hervé Tullet
What do you get when you overlap a triangle with a square or a circle with a star? The wonders unfold as we touch, feel and explore this captivating, colorful, tactile book. With each turn of a page, shapes overlap and fascinating, bold patterns and new shapes emerge. This highly interactive book develops visual awareness, creativity, and imagination!
Tell Me About Colors, Shapes, and Opposites by Delphine Badreddine
This story uses minimal text, designed to develop word recognition. We follow two siblings and a mischievous cat as they play and learn in different everyday situations. The highly stylized illustration has a retro feel, featuring simple black and gray graphic shapes and lines with a touch of color.
The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds
A square is just a square until it becomes a house in this clever book. A circle becomes a spinning ferris wheel, and when you add some string and a tail to a diamond shape, it becomes a kite flying high in the sky! With sprightly rhymes and energetic illustrations filled with hidden shapes, this story show us shapes are everywhere. Readers will learn to identify shapes in the world around them.
Shapes, Reshape! by Silvia Borando
Count down from 10 to 1 in this playful, interactive exploration of the shapes that make up our favorite animals. At the beginning of the story, shapes are lined up neatly in rows… but at the turn of the page, they're mixed up, moved around and reshaped into all kinds of animals! Buzzy and clucky and scaly and sluuuurpy! As we visit ten groups of shapes, can you guess what animal the shapes will become before the shapes reshape?
