Moving Blocks: An Interactive Colors and Shapes Book

by Yusuke Yonezu, Yusuke Yonezu (Illustrator)

Overview

An interactive colors and shapes book.

What are you building? What can it be? An irresistible guessing game, this book asks simple questions for identifying objects that move. The vivid pictures in the book can be reinforced through play with building blocks, allowing young imaginations to grow. 

* An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
* A Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice

This inventive and colorful die-cut board book is all about the many things you can build with blocks. Can you make a car out of them? How about a plane? Turn through the pages of this book to find the answers. It’s full of fun shapes and colors for the youngest readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789888240708
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Series:	The World of Yonezu
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Yusuke Yonezu was born in Tokyo, Japan, where he still lives with his wife and children. As a child he loved to draw and make toys out of paper and boxes. He went on to study design and became the creator of many board books, puzzles, and toys beloved by children and their caregivers around the world.

Yonezu's board books are full of bold colors and help young readers master basic concepts, including counting skills, animals, foods, shapes, and more. The designs help readers of all ages see the world in a new way and discover new surprises with each turn of the page.

Editorial Reviews

“A book offering a plethora of possibilities for interaction (color concept, spatial reasoning, prediction, and types of transportation for a start)….clever, developmentally appropriate board book." — Read On Wisconsin Discussion List / Cooperative Children’s Book Center

"Takes things a step further with surprising patterns and eye-teaser spreads….die-cuts enhance the simple, saturated-hued illustrations by adding an element of concreteness — and stretching children’s brains." —Horn Book

"These impeccably designed concept books are deceptively simple and pack lots of opportunity for an engaging reading experience. …each page turn introduces vehicles that kids will recognize.  The bright primary and secondary colors against white backgrounds are just right for toddlers.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

07/01/2015
Baby/Toddler—These impeccably designed concept books are deceptively simple and pack lots of opportunity for an engaging reading experience. Yonezu artfully uses die cuts to introduce questions that will inspire burgeoning imaginations. In Squares, he asks, "What can three small squares be?" At the flip of the page, readers are met with a bus or a train. In Moving Blocks, each page turn introduces vehicles that kids will recognize. The bright primary and secondary colors against white backgrounds are just right for toddlers.

School Library Journal

2015-04-29
Colors, shapes, vehicles, and an invitation to play with blocks add up to a bonanza for imaginative toddlers. Yonezu's board book is reminiscent of Pat Hutchins' classic Changes Changes (1971) but with a modern, graphic style that calls to mind the art of Piet Mondrian. The concept is simple: things that go are built out of bright red, yellow, green, and blue squares, rectangles, and circles outlined in heavy black lines. Each section begins with the conversation starter: "What are you building? What can it be?" A turn of the die-cut page offers a hint about the sound of the vehicle and then the vehicle itself against a clean, white background. The first is a simple truck, with subsequent creations growing increasingly complex: a bus, a train, a ship, a plane, a rocket. Strong graphic design makes this effort aesthetically pleasing. Predicable repetition will help engage active toddlers. Best of all, similar, three-dimensional blocks are easy to find, making the final invitation—"What else can you build?"—one families can readily act on. Millennial parents, and their parents, the grandparents of Generation Alpha, eager to encourage active play and hands-on experiences, will find this offering a pleasing board book to share with toddlers. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews