Shape Up, Construction Trucks!

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

Dump Truck, Dump TruckComing 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.

Author: Victoria Allenby
Publisher: Pajama Press
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 24
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 9.30h x 9.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781772781342
Audience: Baby-Preschool


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2020
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2020 pg. 37
School Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 73

About the Author
Allenby, Victoria: -

Victoria Allenby has been writing poetry and stories for as long as she can remember. Her debut picture book, Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, won the 2014 Preschool Reads Award and was nominated for the 2015 SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Timo's Garden was a New York Public Library Best Books for Kids & Teens selection. A freelance writer and editor, Victoria lives in Toronto, Ontario.