Review: Think Circles!: A Lift-the-Flap Color and Shape Book by Karen Robbins

SUMMARY FROM EDELWEISS:

Preschool children will find this book's colorful art irresistible as they lift the flaps and learn analytical thinking skills. Ten flaps are uniquely designed with circles that reveal the hidden image underneath. Think! And then lift the flap to see. Teachers and parents can test children on colors, counting, size, differences, beginning reading, and comprehension. Think Circles! will increase language and math skills, along with developing small motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Toddlers and preschoolers will have hours of fun playing with this interactive book.

MY TAKE:
I liked the concept of this book. It's a lift-the-flap color and shape book but because it's presented in a way that includes numbers, you can use it to teach or review numbers as well.

The colors are nice and bright, and the placement of the circles for each new set of items is always different but it doesn't feel haphazard in any way.

There's a lot of attention to detail here as well. For all the pages, whatever the number of the main item is (e.g. 8 paint colors), the number of almost all the other decorative elements on the page are 8 as well. In this particular example, there are 8 paintbrushes in the picture. I didn't expect that, but I loved it.

MY SON'S REACTION:
He had a lot of fun reading this with me. The pagination of the e-ARC didn't allow him to guess because he saw the items right away. He didn't really mind, though. He happily counted the main items for each number and even the other elements, if I pointed them out.

For a lot of the items, he started naming the items and their colors before I even started asking him. His enthusiasm remained all throughout, and he was a little surprised after the last items. I think he was expecting an ending sentence or scene to summarize or close out the book.

FAVORITE QUOTE/S:

8 colored circles
What can they be?

RATING:

SOUNDS INTERESTING?

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