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Synopsis
A lively celebration of circles, disks, spheres, and all sorts of things that roll and spin.
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From Kirkus Reviews
This addition to the Read and Wonder series is a lighthearted survey of round shapes and, particularly, different types of circular motion. Each informal topic is discussed in playful verse (``But what if you twirl/a thinnish disk/until it's a perfect blur?/You'll find what you've made/in a ghostly way/is the every-way-round of a sphere'') and depicted in an appealing setting--an amusement park where rides demonstrate wheels, spirals, and ``Things that swing/in orbital rings''; a beach where rolled towels are cylinders, shells come in flat and conical spirals, and water ripples into concentric circles. Chamberlain's ebullient illustrations of children cavorting with springs or demonstrating the various principles are a fine complement sure to fascinate young readers. Logic doesn't always prevail (if a quantity of water were dropped into space it would become ice, not a spherical drop of liquid), but on the whole the ubiquity and utility of round things are explored engagingly and broadly. (Nonfiction/Picture book. 4-10) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From School Library Journal
Grade 2-4?A hodgepodge of ideas and descriptions that is difficult to follow due to the haphazard wording and rhyme. "Let us think for a bit about round things/and things that spin and whirl?/things that wheel and reel and roll/and curve and coil and curl?/things that are round/like a ball is round,/and things that are round/like a wheel,/and things that swing/in orbital rings,/out and about/and back again.../and things you can/run your fingers around,/in a spiraling slope,/like an ice-cream cone;/and things you can hug,/like a tree." That is just the first sentence! In addition to the dizzying text and busy, comical cartoons, the factual blurbs and dialogue balloons interrupt the flow of the verse and may cause readers to lose their train of thought. Tana Hoban's Spirals, Curves, Fanshapes, and Lines (Greenwillow, 1992) is a better way to introduce these concepts.?Sandra Welzenbach, H.K. Williams Elementary School, San Antonio, TX
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