Shape Up, Construction Trucks!
(Big, Little Concepts #1)

Author

Victoria Allenby

Publication Date

October 13, 2020

Genre / Grade Band

Non-fiction / K − 1^st

Shape Up, Construction Trucks! (Big, Little Concepts #1)

Hardcover

Board Books

Description

An engaging, multilayered book that helps little ones identify shapes on their favorite construction-site vehicles

Dump Truck, Dump Truck

Coming through!

I spy a triangle--how about you?

It's no secret that toddlers of any gender love big vehicles. Shape Up, Construction Trucks! uses rhyming verse and bright photographs to celebrate this enthusiasm in a unique take on conceptual shape books. Each spread highlights geometric shapes hiding in plain sight on excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and more. And after the toddlers have browsed the pages to their heart's content, a final note to parents offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational skills.

By kindergarten, most children should have developed the spatial sense to identify shapes in real-world environments. Shape recognition lays the foundation not only for geometry, but for learning to recognize letters and numbers as well. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, Victoria Allenby's Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a highly visual shape book that digs deep.

Publication date

October 13, 2020

Classification

Non-fiction

Page Count

ISBN-13

9781772781342

Lexile Measure

440

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Pajama Press

Series

Big, Little Concepts

BISAC categories

Library of Congress categories

Trucks
Construction equipment
Shapes

Kirkus

Starred Review

Storytime gets a kick in the pants with this jaunty combo of shapes and vehicles....Clear, crisp, clean, and concise--trucks and shapes have never before looked (or sounded) this good.

School Library Journal

Starred Review

PreS-K--This picture book uses images of real construction vehicles to teach various shapes. Each spread depicts construction vehicles on construction sites, including dump trucks, mixers, and cranes. A rhyming prompt asks readers to find a certain shape on each vehicle. "Lifting hook / Lifting hook / Coming through! / I spy a diamond -- / How about you?" Large photos, bold type, and color-specific shapes serve as wonderful aids for young readers to strengthen their identification skills. The repetitive text encourages children to read along with the story. The back matter provides age-appropriate geometry activities. VERDICT Sure to be a hit with collections and storytimes.--Anna Taylor, Chattanooga, TN