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12 Shapes Books for Little Kids

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I LOVE using picture books to teach math concepts. They are usually a great visual for students to better understand the concept that is being taught. When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes. Are you looking for more shape ideas, activities, and printables to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

12 book covers of books about shapes

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

A greedy triangle adds to himself to become new shapes in this bold and colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.

When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins by Rhonda Gowler Greene

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Young readers will enjoy this fun introduction to assorted shapes through a lively rhyming text.

Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Three clever mice create pictures with shapes in order to escape a cat!

The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

This delightful book shows young readers how shapes are part of everyday things all around us.

Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Page by page, die cut shapes further reveal images in this colorful exploration of shapes.

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Wherever you are, there are shapes for children to discover in the world around them!

Square Cat by Elizabeth Schoonmaker

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

As the only square cat in a round world, Eula figures out how to make things work.

Brown Rabbit’s Shape Book by Alan Baker

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Brown rabbit discovers a box of balloons and creates a variety of shapes.

Friendshape by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Young readers can explore friendship through four best friend shapes in this charming book.

If You Were a Quadrilateral by Molly Blaisdall

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

If you were a quadrilateral, what could you be? Readers will begin to see this shape all around them.

Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly Bingham

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Moose loves shapes! After he ends up in a shape book, and wrecks everything, it’s up to Zebra to save the day.

Circus Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy

When I am planning for my math lessons, I do not always have the time to put into finding awesome picture books to teach whatever it is that I am planning for. I am sure that I am not alone with this. To save you some time I put together my favorite shapes books. Hopefully this list will help your math planning, while also providing you with some great books to teach shapes.

Young readers can learn shape recognition with a backdrop of circus performance.

To see all book lists featured on A Dab of Glue Will Do, click here. Do you have any favorite shapes books that are not on the list? If so, please share in the comments below.

Can you not find a resource that you would LOVE to have for your classroom? Contact me and I would be happy to make it for you.

Filed Under: Book Lists, Math, Shapes and Patterns Tagged With: book list, First Grade, Kindergarten, Literacy, Math, Pre-K, Preschool

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