Circles, triangles, and squares:
the game is on!
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As a child, Ivan Brunetti loved making images out of simple shapes. He may be a respected art professor these days, but he has never grown out of it. In his new book, Shapes and Shapes, Ivan draws on what he has learned as an artist and an educator to teach young readers a basic yet exciting lesson in art and math: the world, from the playground to outer space, is made of shapes! In his hands, circles, triangles, and rectangles explode, divide, and multiply, becoming hearts and stars, a bus full of kids, a ponytail, a cyborg, even Saturn and its ring! Kids will giggle as they learn to see in a whole new way. Who knew shapes could be so much fun? | |
TOON LEVEL 1
INTEREST LEVEL: Age 4+
READING LEVEL: Grades K-1
LEXILE READING LEVEL: AD330L
AUTHOR: Ivan Brunetti
LANGUAGE: English
PAGES: 32
DIMENSIONS: 9" x 6"
HC ISBN: 978-1-66266-517-2
PB ISBN: 978-1-66266-518-9
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Pub date: October 3, 2023 | |
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“If the Platonic ideal of the young children's comic both helps them interpret their world and introduces new ideas for them to explore and expand on, then Brunetti has brought that conceptual model into actual existence.” - ★★★ Booklist STARRED REVIEW
“A strong introduction to graphic novels . . . . Will have readers eagerly pointing out the shapes around them." – Kirkus Reviews
"Captures the fun of a bunch of kids getting their creativity into tip-top shape." – Publishers Weekly
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Two Brunetti titles also available in affordable paperback on October 10! | |
And that's not all! Next week, two of Ivan's previous TOON Books will be released in paperback for the first time, joining Shapes and Shapes in beautiful, affordable editions perfect for the classroom!
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Go “outside,” “elsewhere,” and down the “rabbit hole” with this hilarious introduction to compound words. The lesson here? Even “homework” is fun when you let yourself play with the words!
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Fun by the dozen! Annemarie and her clever classmates must draw sets of twelve and use their imagination to come up with creative and innovative solutions. Young readers will delight in the counting game while learning the basics of multiplication. | |
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IVAN BRUNETTI is an art professor, an artist, and a cartoonist. Ivan has published many acclaimed books for adults, including the Eisner Award-winning Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice. His previous books for children, also from TOON Books, include Wordplay, about compound words, 3x4, about basic multiplication, and the Eisner-winning Comics: Easy as ABC. Ivan continues to use shapes in his art: “The more you look at this book, the more shapes you’ll find. My drawings always start with roughly doodled simple shapes, which I then slowly ‘smooth’ out. If they start to get too complicated, I try to make them simple again.” |
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For more information on ordering Shapes and Shapes for your library, store or classroom, check it out on Edelweiss! | |
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