Mac Barnett's Shape Trilogy
/A home library has always been a dream of mine. Luckily, I married a man who is also enamored with reading and he came with a massive collection of books - I mean MASSIVE. At one point in our young marriage we had over 12 IKEA bookshelves in a 3 bedroom house. Every single shelf was full, many were more than full.
It goes without saying that reading is a very important part of our adult lives and, as such, we try to instill a love of reading, literature, and stories in our two rascals. We buy books all the time - more than we can realistically read. Books are stacked everywhere in our house!
We have a few kids books that never make it back to the shelves because they are read over and over again. Today, I want to introduce you to the Shape Trilogy books by Mac Barnett: Triangle, Square, and Circle.
Each book tells a different story about the shape character and its friends. The shapes are silly yet honest, personifying traits of real people, and they toy with big philosophical questions. Triangle tells the story of mischievous Triangle who seeks out his friend Square to play a trick on him. Square tells the story of his struggle to make something as perfect as his friend Circle. Circle tells the story of a shape breaking all the rules and the shapes facing their own biases. These books contain big lessons and ideas for little people. As a bonus, the illustrations are fantastic: shape oriented, minimal, and textured. We highly recommend introducing this collection to your rascals!
Written by book enthusiast Brandi Stanton, mother of two young “readers” ages 2 and 4.
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