Perfect Square
Author & Illustrator: Michael Hall
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year of Publication: 2011
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: 2
Summary: This book is about a simple red square who gets ripped, cut, and manipulated to turn itself into a variety of new things.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Hornbook gave this book a review of 2. The reviewers like that the square got manipulated in a variety of different ways. After getting manipulated each time it turns itself into some sort of collage. The illustrator simply adds a few lines to add to the collage.
Review by Kitty Anthony: I believe this book is ideal for very young children. The different colors on each page will attract the readers and make them want to pick up the book and read it. I think the text is simple enough for them to read with the exception of a few words (shredded, etc.). The illustrations also mirror what the text reads and the finished collage represents the way that the square was manipulated. Overall, this book would be great to use for young children.
This book would be useful when teaching… I think that this book could be used in multiple ways. Obviously teachers could use this when teaching children about different shapes. But since each page is a different color and day of the week, the teacher can use this book to reinforce those concepts if the students were already taught those. This book could also be used as part of an art project where the students have to copy the steps in this book to make a square piece of paper into something new.
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year of Publication: 2011
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: 2
Summary: This book is about a simple red square who gets ripped, cut, and manipulated to turn itself into a variety of new things.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Hornbook gave this book a review of 2. The reviewers like that the square got manipulated in a variety of different ways. After getting manipulated each time it turns itself into some sort of collage. The illustrator simply adds a few lines to add to the collage.
Review by Kitty Anthony: I believe this book is ideal for very young children. The different colors on each page will attract the readers and make them want to pick up the book and read it. I think the text is simple enough for them to read with the exception of a few words (shredded, etc.). The illustrations also mirror what the text reads and the finished collage represents the way that the square was manipulated. Overall, this book would be great to use for young children.
This book would be useful when teaching… I think that this book could be used in multiple ways. Obviously teachers could use this when teaching children about different shapes. But since each page is a different color and day of the week, the teacher can use this book to reinforce those concepts if the students were already taught those. This book could also be used as part of an art project where the students have to copy the steps in this book to make a square piece of paper into something new.