Genre
Picture books for children
Tone
Whimsical
Illustration
Colorful
Inventive
Subject
Cats
Circles
Cooperation
Hiding
Imagination
Mice
Shapes
Three (The number)
Triangles

"Violet, Martin, and Fred, three mice on the run from a cat, hide among some shapes that they find. They find different ways to put the ovals, squares, triangles, and others all together in order to hide, and in the end, they craft a cat head and scare the real cat away"

a fun introduction to shapes
1 large book

Violet, Martin, and Fred, three mice on the run from a cat, hide among some shapes that they find. They find different ways to put the ovals, squares, triangles, and others all together in order to hide, and in the end, they craft a cat head and scare the real cat away.

This book is appropriate for kindergarten and first grade, as it has simple concepts of shapes and creating imagination through the combination of shapes. It would be used as an interactive read-aloud and it could be used in small groups to thoroughly explain the concept of shapes, and how you can combine different shapes to create new things.It is a good option for kindergarten students as they are supposed to be learning how to classify shapes by name, and their relationship to each other, so they can say "the circle on top of the oval looks like an eye" or something similar. They should also be able to identify shapes in everyday objects. First graders are supposed to be learning how to compose shapes from other shapes, so it also applies to their standards.