When a Line Bends...a Shape Begins

by Rhonda Gowler Greene

Book Overview

A line is thin. A line is narrow--curved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles, triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively book. With jaunty, rhyming text, young readers are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395786061
• ISBN13: 9780395786062
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

book review, books about teaching art to kids

This book is lively and fun with great illustrations and wonderful rhyming words. I purchased it to help teach elementary school children about two of the elements of art: line and shape. It did the job very well and has so many examples in the course of the poetry that it is one of the books you can easily read over and over.

Great teaching book

As a preschool teacher, this book is wonderful for learning to see shapes in the world we live in. My children loved it.

When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins

I teach 3rd grade and purchased this book to introduce geometry. It really seems to interest the students. I had originally borrowed the book from a friend who teaches Learning Support, and she found it to be useful for introducing geometry.

What Can a Line Do?

It can do many things, including creating great shapes. Take the adventure via this book, then try it yourself.

Review from ultra

In an industy where hundreds of childrens books are introduced almost every month, this one impressively stands out among all the other casualties for content and especially illustration. This is a rare case where illustration style and story does not try to partonize parents and their children nor does it come across as an over-intellectualized wanna-be childrens book. I can't wait to have children so I can read and reread this book to them.