Color Farm Board Book

This book is so creative with cut out shapes that engage the reader and vibrant colors. The shapes of the book form animals like an optical allusion, great for challenging the brain.

Color Farm is truly an inventive and engaging book that allows the reader to not only learn but to play with the shapes and animals. The simple turning of the page changes one barnyard animal into another and at the same time reveals to the reader the various shapes make up that animal.

Color Farm is a wordless picture book that captures all of the animals on a farm, but depicted in an unusual way. She begins the book with a poem about the animals on a farm. As you turn the page, you see a fam animal that is made out of a mathematical shape. The name of the animal is written in

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the corner. On the opposing side of the page, Elhert has used a solid color with the cutout shape, and names the shape in the lower corner. This continues throughout the book.
Elhert's use of cut-outs makes this a book like none other. The bright colors are sure to keep a child's attention.
I think this would be a great book to use when teaching shapes and colors.

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Very interesting book. Lots of colors and cool animal shapes, each made with several shapes. When the page is turned you only see one shape with the word . Each page has a single word telling which animal or shape(s). Good book.

A great book for shapes and vocabulary words, learning animals as well as shapes and colors