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Teaching shapes with children's books

Last Updated: 18-Sep-2015

This is a list of children's books at Cubberley Library that can be used to teach children about geometric shapes.

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Recently received

Mysterious patterns : finding fractals in nature / Sarah C. Campbell ; photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA445.5 .C34 2014
Ages 7-10; Gr.3-6
The shape of things / Dayle Ann Dodds ; illustrated by Julie Lacome.
1st paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass : Candlewick Press, 1996, c1994.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QA445 .D63 1996
Ages 3-5

Other books

Circus Shapes {book cover]
Circus shapes / by Stuart J. Murphy ; illustrated by Edward Miller.
New York : HarperCollins, c1998.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .U76193 C57 1998
The greedy triangle / written by Marilyn Burns ; illustrated by Gordon Silveria.
New York : Scholastic, c1994
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3552 .U732468 G74 1994
Mouse shapes / Ellen Stoll Walsh.
1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .A467 M68 2007
Round is a Mooncake [cover image]
Round is a mooncake : a book of shapes / written by Roseanne Thong ; illustrated by Grace Lin.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3620 .H747 R68 2000
Round is a tortilla : a book of shapes / by Roseanne Greenfield Thong ; illustrated by John Parra.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3620 .H747 R686 2013
When a line bends-- a shape begins / Rhonda Gowler Greene ; illustrated by James Kaczman.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3607 .R4527 W48 1997
The wing on a flea : a book about shapes / written and illustrated by Ed Emberley.
[1st ed.] Boston : Little, Brown, [1961]
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » TX 740 .E53W