Reviews for Eye Like Stickers: Colors

The average rating for Eye Like Stickers: Colors based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-21 00:00:00 Robert Carriedo Genre: Concept Picture Book Summary: Cubes, Cones, Cylinders & Spheres is a wordless book that encourages children to discover these shapes all around them through the use of 35 mm photographs reflecting everything from cityscapes to castles. Literary Critique: (a.) Ability to engage and teach the concepts of cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres (b.) The author engages the young reader with extremely interesting photographs that both teach the shape concepts as well as encourage critical thinking skills. (c.) On the publishing information page there are 4 small, simple, white cartoonish drawings of the four shapes on a bright green background, each next to its printed name, also in white. Because the reader is translating these cartoon figures into real-life photograph identification of the shapes, critical thinking skills are immediately engaged. On the first page is a photograph of wooden blocks, some with letters, some with numbers, and some with colors. Not only does the child begin to identify the shape, but with direction the child can be encouraged to name the letters, the colors, or count the red blocks. Many of the pictures are extremely fun and interesting for a child such as the girl holding two ice cream cones (p. 2) or the boy blowing bubbles (p. 5). Children immediately recognize activities they love. Some of the photographs are more quizzical and can be used to encourage children to think about what is happening or to make up a story to go with the photograph. On page 7 a woman is standing on some kind of cylinder pedestal in a concrete field of similar pedestals. Children can wonder about what she is doing, where this takes place, and why she is up there. Curriculum Connection: Math: read the book aloud and have young children identify the shapes. Then encourage the children to look around their classroom or their school to find the shapes. Writing: Have each child pick a picture and write a short story.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-31 00:00:00 Mark Beardsley 1. Wordless/ Concept Picture Book'Shapes 2. This book shows photos of objects in the shapes of cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. 3. A. Photography/ wordless B. The back flap of the book states, "Tana Hoban's photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and in galleries around the world." The strengths of this book are definitely found in the photography. Hoban takes a close look at the world of shapes that tantalize the reader's senses. The weakness of this book is the lack of words. Cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres are concepts that may be a bit difficult to understand for a young reader. C. The photography is very "crisp." For example, in the picture of the boy with the spherical bubble, one can see the sunlight reflect on it causing a rainbow of colors within the bubble. The photos also pay respects to the reader's senses: the reader can "taste" the melting ice cream cones and feel the cool air in the picture of the barn. Unfortunately, words would be useful in the pictures. How is a beginning reader going to know what is a cube from a cone from a cylinder from a sphere? Words to accompany which photos showed this shape would have been helpful, especially in the photos with more than one shape. For example, the picture of the castle has cones and cylinders. 4. I would recommend showing this book to students AFTER teaching students about cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. I would also consider bringing this into a geometry classroom to show real life examples of what is being taught.