SURPRISE! Slide and Play Shapes

by Elsa Fouquier (Created by)

Overview

A play-and-learn book on colors and shapes!

What happens when you twist a green square, push a yellow star, or wiggle a blue triangle? Each easy turn or sliding movement will scatter a flock of birds into the sky, send butterflies flitting all around, or reveal a cheery rainbow and bright sun!
• Interactive moveable shapes to twist, push, and wiggle revealing fun new surprises
• Cheery and colorful illustrations and fun read-aloud text
• And a surprise pop-up ending!

Young children will enjoy revealing the surprises as they move each of the four colorful shapes in this vibrant and delightful interactive book. SURPRISE! Slide and Play Shapes is innovative and interactive fun perfect for growing young minds!
• Great family read-aloud book
• Interactive books for babies and toddlers
• Gifts for 0–3 years old

A fun-filled way to introduce early concepts, this book is sure to become a nursery room favorite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782408024697
Publisher:	Tourbillon
Publication date:	02/16/2021
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Elsa Fouquier is an artist and illustrator who attended the Emile Chohl school in Lyon, France. She enjoys engraving, painting and digital art, and has published numerous books for children. She lives in Grane, France.

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-02
As an orange cat explores a fanciful landscape, little ones are invited to turn, twist, or slide large buttons in this French import.

A square, circle, star, and triangle are visible through die-cut holes in the cover and interior pages corresponding to these brightly colored shapes. Within, a small orange cat (who often gets lost on the pages due to his diminutive size) meanders through the somewhat psychedelic landscape by zooming in an airplane, balancing on a leaf, and floating on a cloud. On every other double-page spread, youngsters are invited to manipulate one of the large, paper knobs, which seem to be made out of cut, stacked, and glued board pages. When the green square is twisted to the left, a panel hidden between the board pages flips up out of the top of the book, causing the birds that are painted on it to appear to fly out of the tree as if the cat has startled them. The star-shaped knob makes butterflies shoot up and to the right on another panel. Manipulating the triangle and the circle cause a palm tree to grow and the sun and a rainbow to appear, respectively. Unfortunately, the manipulatives may not stand up to abuse, particularly as children who try to replicate the “twist” that triggers the first special effect may entirely detach the star and triangle with the same action. Text offering direction and light observations appears on the verso, but Fouquier’s whimsical art in bubble-gum colors is what primarily draws the eye. While the large buttons are big enough not to cause choking-hazard concerns, their flimsy construction makes them unlikely to survive many readings by active toddlers.

If little fingers are too interactive, they will make this offering permanently inactive. (Novelty/board book. 2-3)

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