First Friends: Shapes

Also available in bilingual English and Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese!

Join a class of kids at daycare as they find shapes all around the classroom!

In our day care class, it's time to play. Let's find shapes along the way! There are triangles, squares, diamonds, and other shapes in the paintings, blocks, and dolls. What other shapes can you find?

• Introduce early math and geometry concepts
• Shows a diverse cast of toddlers during play time at a daycare
• Seek-and-find shapes from the last page throughout the book

Mk Smith Despres is a children’s librarian and educator in western Massachusetts. In addition to the First Friends series, they are the author of There’s That Sun Again and Night Song, one of Bank Street’s Best Children's Books of the Year.

Aya Watanabe is a Japanese illustrator who loves to explore imaginary worlds and to express her inner child through art. Creating fun content for kids is her passion. She lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, with her pet caterpillars. aw-illustrations.com