Circle! Sphere!

A cute and simple board book perfect for introducing young children to shapes/5K math. I also love how Grace Lin's illustrations are always cute and inclusive in their diversity.

Of the three Grace Lin early math board books I read today, this one is the most challenging! Our friends are blowing bubbles with different shaped wands. In most kids books about shapes, you're looking at a 1:1 relationship between two matching things -- you match a square with a square. This one is tricker! All three wands are different but they make the same shape bubbles! The text lightly models hypothesizing, but I wish it had a parallel construction so you could formulate, test, reformulate, test, etc. Still a really lovely board book that I can't wait to see in person.

This is a cute little book about exploring bubbles and shapes. Each child has a different bubble wand - circle, triangle, and heart - but they each make a circle bubble because that's what bubbles do! This has great, bright illustrations and is great for learning.

Math concepts are little trickier for the youg age group.Grace Lin has done a tremendous job of teaching children concept of sphras in ball .Circle is different than the sphere.and how different shapes make the same bubbles as this is what bubbles do .
Illustrations are very cute and colorful and characters are diverse.

Thank you NetGalley and Charlesbridge Publishing for the opportunity to read "Summer: Circle! Sphere!" in exchange for my honest review.

This colourful book can be incorporated into any STEM curriculum to help young children start to explore math concepts. To help parents and educators pose the question to children "how can we use math every day?"

This book is a wonderful introduction to children of the concepts of geometry. It can get the children finding shapes all around them. Shapes like circles, squares, triangles in the items they see every day. They can also be introduced to the concepts of why things are flat or round or tubes.

Children can find shapes that they can build with, find shapes that roll, figure out why they can't build a tower from balls. Then you can pose the question - why are bubbles round and see what they come up with.

This series of books by Grace Lin is a wonderful introduction to very young children of the sometimes scary world of math!

This story gives a simple way to introduce math concepts in a living way for young minds to easily understand. The vibrant pictures and real-world examples can help show that math is fun, not intimidating.

I really like that there are “Exploring the Math” and “Try This!” sections at the end! This is so helpful for taking it from just a story to an actionable lesson and activity that sticks!

I received an electronic ARC from Charlesbridge through NetGalley.
Lin offers simple information on shapes. She also offers true information on bubbles being spheres no matter what shape the blower is. She introduces these math concepts in a book about friends playing together. Brightly colored illustrations pull readers in to enjoy and learn at the same time.

A lovely board book that gives kids an early look at geometry. Three kids are blowing bubbles with different shaped wands. What shapes will their bubbles be? I loved that this book introduced a different way of talking about shapes than what we might normally use in conversation. The tips at the end of the book were also really helpful. Paintings show a diverse group of kids having fun with bubbles. Bright and colorful, will be enjoyed by babies and give parents ideas of new vocabulary to share with them.

I love the bright, large illustrations in this book! I appreciated the diversity as well. I appreciate books that can introduce math topics in an approachable, relatable way for even the youngest readers and this book excels at that. As in the author’s other books I have read, I again appreciate the inclusion of activities and prompts for learning at the end of the book too.

This toddler book explores shapes through blowing bubbles. It was a nice and simple book, but I wish it would have answered the question it posed, which is why are bubbles always a sphere no matter what shape you blow them out of.