First Friends: Shapes
Join a class of kids at daycare as they find triangles, squares, diamonds, and other shapes in their paintings, blocks, and dolls at play time – then clean up together and transition to circle time!
Key Selling Points:
- EARLY LEARNING CONCEPTS: Introduces a variety of shapes in an engaging, age-appropriate format.
- SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING: Gentle social-emotional storyline shown in the artwork depicts children making a mess and then cleaning up together.
- DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ILLUSTRATIONS: The class of 8 toddlers and 2 grownups features a variety of skin tones and body shapes, and a child with a hearing aid.
- DAILY ROUTINE / DAYCARE SETTING: This story focuses on “free choice” play time, a fun and relatable part of the daily routine at a daycare.
- INTERACTIVE: The final spread shows all the shapes in the book so that readers can go back through and find them all again.
- SERIES: The First Friends series introduces readers to a repeating cast of characters in a daycare classroom, with each book focusing on a different early learning concept.
More Details
- Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.5 in
- Page Count: 18 pages
- Age Range: 1-4 years
Awards & Accolades
“Dive into a world of shapes with this engaging seek-and-find board book. Rhyming pages tell the story of a daycare class as they play throughout the day, introducing shapes through child-friendly, bright images” – School Library Journal
“A diverse group of children enjoy a day at daycare surrounded by shapes: hearts, stars, squares, ovals, and even a rainbow arc are tucked into the illustrations, waiting to be called out” – Foreword Reviews
“This colorful, rhyming adventure encourages little ones to recognize shapes and find hidden ones scattered throughout vivid scenes of children playing . . . Both educational and entertaining, this offers a lesson on shapes we see every day with a focus on joy and play” – Booklist
