This Is a Circle

by Chrissie Krebs

Overview

This is a circle. That is a square. This is a very silly book about a wild-looking one-eyed bear, a song-singing cat, a tap-dancing goat, and a pants-wearing fox. Armed with a variety of objects and shapes, these four silly creatures create a surprising amount of havoc, which starts by the goat climbing the box and only gets zanier from there!

This is A Circle is charming, silly tale of shapes and objects. Kreb's dynamic illustrations bring her zany words to life in a fun read-along book that will have the whole family smiling!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510731288
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Chrissie Krebs is an author-illustrator who also teaches art and media at a secondary school in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. With a passion for drawing and telling amazing stories to get out of trouble, She grew up realizing that the only thing she really wanted to do was write and illustrate children's books. This Is a Circle is her first picture book.

Editorial Reviews

2018-06-25
Four animals, two shapes, and six items equal exponential fun.This Australian import starts out as a simple rhyming concept book but quickly transforms into a zany free-for-all. The action begins when a goat wearing a fez climbs up onto a box. This angers a cat, who proceeds to hop in a car and drive around the goat in circles. Disinclined toward this kind of "silly stuff," a fox then huffs away to sit on a square. Meanwhile, a bear sails a boat and antagonizes the fox. A crash sends the cat onto the box with the goat. After a brief spat, the fox (with the bear chasing angrily after it) soon follows. The ruckus ends in a cliffhanger: "Now they are up here … // How do they get down?" The smart, well-paced structure introduces objects and characters one by one. Each introduced noun appears in a larger-point font, a consistent way to mark these main ingredients as the story progresses in sentence-level complexity. Unlike the objects, the characters are also introduced with compound adjectives, such as "wild-looking one-eyed bear" or "pant-wearing fluffy-eared fox." Krebs' colorful, black-outlined cartoon illustrations pop against the white background and skillfully amplify the comedy in the text. With a total vocabulary of fewer than 120 words, the story functions as both read-aloud and intermediate early reader.A rip-roaring, chuckle-inducing romp. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews