Building early math skills has never been so much fun! With every turn of the page, stories are woven with laces, colorful beads, and jewel-tone pattern-play blocks that can be used right on or in the recessed pages of the book. Each Jr. Groovy Tube Book comes with a clear spine to store the hands-on manipulatives. At the end of each story, kids will extend their learning with games and are encouraged to create their own designs. Crash! Oh, no. The king and queen's beautiful stained-glass windows are all in pieces! Children are invited to help the artists and rebuild them. They can arrange the pattern-play block pieces into the recessed pages as the artists try to remember how the windows originally looked. This is a fun and easy introduction to recognizing shapes, building patterns, and understanding spatial relationships and symmetries.