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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Shapes Are Fun! series.
These books for very young beginning readers introduce different shapes, each one discussing a shape's properties and providing examples of the particular shape around us. Stock photos show the shape highlighted in different settings, from a circular pizza to hexagon-shaped tiles to triangular bridge supports. The presentation is formulaic; the simplistic texts are undemanding. A counting game concludes each volume. Glos., ind. Review covers these Shapes Are Fun! titles: Circles, Hexagons, Ovals, Rectangles, Squares, and Triangles.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
Animal Colors series.
Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.
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K-3
On the Farm series.
These wide-trim books teach kids about life on a farm. Each spread has two or three short sentences and a large, colorful stock photo that splits across the book's gutter. The writing can be choppy ("Cotton is soft. Cotton is used in clothes. Cotton is used in towels"), but it's suited to beginning readers. Additional (random) facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review includes these On the Farm titles: Buildings on the Farm, Crops on the Farm, Life on the Farm
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K-3
On the Farm series.
These wide-trim books teach kids about life on a farm. Each spread has two or three short sentences and a large, colorful stock photo that splits across the book's gutter. The writing can be choppy ("Cotton is soft. Cotton is used in clothes. Cotton is used in towels"), but it's suited to beginning readers. Additional (random) facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review includes these On the Farm titles: Buildings on the Farm, Crops on the Farm, Life on the Farm
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K-3
On the Farm series.
These wide-trim books teach kids about life on a farm. Each spread has two or three short sentences and a large, colorful stock photo that splits across the book's gutter. The writing can be choppy ("Cotton is soft. Cotton is used in clothes. Cotton is used in towels"), but it's suited to beginning readers. Additional (random) facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review includes these On the Farm titles: Buildings on the Farm, Crops on the Farm, Life on the Farm
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K-3
On the Farm series.
These wide-trim books teach kids about life on a farm. Each spread has two or three short sentences and a large, colorful stock photo that splits across the book's gutter. The writing can be choppy ("Cotton is soft. Cotton is used in clothes. Cotton is used in towels"), but it's suited to beginning readers. Additional (random) facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review includes these On the Farm titles: Buildings on the Farm, Crops on the Farm, Life on the Farm