Lines

by Sarvinder Naberhaus, Melinda Beck (Illustrator)

Overview

This beautifully illustrated board book shows readers how lines make up a whole: a whole square, house, town, city, and universe!

Line, Lines
Square, Squares
Town
Line, Lines
Circle, Circles
Go round

Think beyond shapes. Beyond colors. Beyond letters and numbers. With poetic text and beautiful illustrations, this board book shows us how individual pieces make up a whole. And not just a whole house or a whole town, or a whole city, but a whole universe. This book celebrates both the simplicity and complexity of the world around us!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481490757
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	08/22/2017
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Sarvinder Naberhaus is the author of Boom Boom and Lines. She lives with her family in Ames, Iowa.

Melinda Beck is an Emmy-nominated illustrator, animator, and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her clients include Nickelodeon, Nike, Target, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Real Simple, Supreme, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time. She received many awards including a gold medal from The Society of Illustrators, In addition her work has been exhibited in various shows. Recently a series of her prints was acquired by the Library of Congress for their permanent collection. Melinda is currently the vice president of ICON, The Illustration Conference, which brings together top illustrators, designers, educators, representatives, and art buyers to explore the future of illustration.

Editorial Reviews

★ 07/31/2017
Lines have the ability to connect and define—something Naberhaus and Beck portray with grace in a board book that opens with a single vertical line and expands to encompass the entire solar system. It’s an exercise in building: one line becomes four, and the resulting square turns into a building in a town crisscrossed by roads (more lines). Curved lines form circles, which become vehicles to fill those roads. There’s a quiet poetry to Naberhaus’s ultra-spare text (“Lines/ Squares/ Circles/ Go up/ Go Down/ Lines/ Squares/ Circles/ All around”), and Beck’s bright illustrations play with form, perspective, and geometry as a town, community, and planet grow from the most basic of building blocks. Ages 2–4. Author’s agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

01/01/2018
Toddler-PreS—A simple line becomes a square, squares, and a town, while another forms a circle, circles, and wheels. Together they become roads, towns, and a planet, as the view expands ever outward. Subtle and original.—Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal

School Library Journal

2017-10-01
Bit by bit a line transforms into greater shapes until it encompasses the solar system.A line becomes a group of lines that make a square. An arced line becomes a group of arced lines that make a circle. As the book progresses, the square becomes a square with many smaller squares inside, and a group of these squares-cum-houses becomes a town. The circle also becomes more than just a circle as it transforms into a vehicle, and other lines, squares, and circles become even more vehicles and people that go up and down and all around the town; then from town to town, round and round until they encompass the solar system. The text is spare with just one, two, or three words per page. The illustrations are geometric, stylized, and colorful, as befits the theme. Most of the faces formed by the circles are white—literally white, with the exception of a few green or blue ones. Readers on the younger end of the target audience are likely to key in on the idea of geometrical forms as building blocks; older ones can be engaged in the more abstract concept of interconnectedness.A deceptively simple book. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews