Colors and Shapes educational books for preschool kids at The Savvy Source for Parents

Colors and Shapes: Identifying colors and shapes -- another two of the basic building blocks of preschool learning, and another two of the ways that your little person, be he a future architect, mathematician, artist, or none-of-the-above, can get a handle on this sometimes confusing world. Start with a stop sign -- all the experts seem to -- and you won't be the only one to recognize that it's the red color and the octagon shape that tip you off to hit the brakes long before you can read the word 'stop.' After you work your way through these wonderful books, your child too will be using his knowledge of patterns of shapes and shades of color to give a little order to his world. Oh, and he'll also be using that knowledge to enforce the rules of the road -- watch out, here comes another backseat driver!

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COLORS AND SHAPES BOOKS

The Color Kittens

by Margaret Wise Brown

For ages 2+ years

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Two green-eyed kittens who slosh around great big buckets of paint making all kinds of messes - what more appealing heroes could we ask for? The color kittens have only yellow, red, and blue paint, but what they really want is some green. So the kittens mix their paints, and Margaret Wise Brown mixes her lovely prose with a touch of poetry in order to teach young children the basics of color theory. In the end, the kittens learn to make not just green but also pink, purple, orange, brown, and "all the colors in the world."

When a Line Bends ... A Shape Begins

by Rhonda Gowler Greene and James Kaczman

For ages 2+ years

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Early geometry is the lesson of this lovely, not so garishly illustrated book on shapes. Beyond just recognizing the most basic shapes, this book starts with the idea that a simple line makes them all, an idea oddly elusive to child who has of course never been able to draw even one of them! But soon she will be drawing all, of course, and recognizing them everywhere, both on these richly illustrated pages and throughout her little world. Whereas some shape books seem too simplistic for even the youngest preschoolers, this one covers all of the important shapes in a clever and engaging way, never babying your little ones who are still sorting it all out.

My Very First Book of Shapes

by Eric Carle

For ages 1+ years

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This is shape-matching game in the form of a board book, complete with Eric Carle's lovely watercolor collages. Each page is cut in half, with a shape and its name on the top half and a picture beneath, but all out of order, of course. The task is to match shapes to pictures. Once your little one has started to master shape recognition, she will enjoy practicing her new feat and showing off her prowess with this little volume.

A Color of His Own

by Leo Leonni

For ages 1+ years

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Perhaps your child has found a favorite color. Perhaps that color is so imporant in his life that he won't wear any other color. Perhaps that makes laundry far too frequent of a chore for you. Perhaps you need this book. It's a charming story of a chameleon who is fixated on having a color of his own, which of course is impossible in nature's ever-changing palette. But he realizes that it is in fact more important to be with someone you love, changing colors and seasons together, than to look one particular way, or color, forever. You get the moral: friendship over looks, pals over laundry. A book with a lesson everyone in the family can love.

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Colors and Shapes Educational Books