Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres
by Tana Hoban
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Photographs of all kinds of familiar objects depict a variety of shapes, including cubes, cones, and spheres.Tags
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Just for 10 seconds look around the room. What shapes do you see? The door, tv, windows are rectagles. Do you see a ball? That's a SPHERE! A phone? Yup, that's a rectangular prism.
The book is a little game were iSpy meets geometry. It includes numerous of photos (with no words) which you must guess what shape is in the picture. However, the book only focuses on 4 different shapes which are in the title.
Page 1 includes wooden alphabet/number block... CUBES! Page 2 includes a young girl eating two ice cream cones... TAHTS A CONE!
Bubbles?... A SPHERE!
Drums?... CYLINDER!
Baseball?... SPHERE!
Presents?... A CUBE
This book gets 4 out of five stars. I find it too easy and can be flipped through pretty fast. It should have included more than one show more shape in each photograph such as the girl eating two ice cream cones (cones) with maybe her sitting on a box (cube)etc.
HOWEVER,
I love the fact it can make children realize there are shapes all around them besides only on paper. This could be a great project for kids to take pictures of shapes in and around there home. show less
The book is a little game were iSpy meets geometry. It includes numerous of photos (with no words) which you must guess what shape is in the picture. However, the book only focuses on 4 different shapes which are in the title.
Page 1 includes wooden alphabet/number block... CUBES! Page 2 includes a young girl eating two ice cream cones... TAHTS A CONE!
Bubbles?... A SPHERE!
Drums?... CYLINDER!
Baseball?... SPHERE!
Presents?... A CUBE
This book gets 4 out of five stars. I find it too easy and can be flipped through pretty fast. It should have included more than one show more shape in each photograph such as the girl eating two ice cream cones (cones) with maybe her sitting on a box (cube)etc.
HOWEVER,
I love the fact it can make children realize there are shapes all around them besides only on paper. This could be a great project for kids to take pictures of shapes in and around there home. show less
A great "pictures only" book showing really neat photographs of cubes, cones, cylinders, and squares. The back contains a page with all of the authors others books and the back leaf describes her photography journey and credentials. A co-worker and I were discussing that it would have been nice if the author would have included what the photographs were and where they were taken because many are very interesting! A cool book!
Type: Picture Book easy
Genre: Information Picture Book
Illustrations- Computer Generated
This is a picture book that shows how much of our everyday life is surrounded by cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. This book is great for any younger child or an older one who is starting to learn geometery.
Genre: Information Picture Book
Illustrations- Computer Generated
This is a picture book that shows how much of our everyday life is surrounded by cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. This book is great for any younger child or an older one who is starting to learn geometery.
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Tana Hoban was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has also lived in Holland and England. Hoban graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia in 1938, and painted in Europe as a recipient of the John Frederick Lewis Fellowship. When she returned to Philadelphia, she worked as a free-lance advertising artist and magazine illustrator. By show more 1950 her work was included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in 1953 she was the only woman mentioned in a Time magazine portfolio on "Half a Century of U.S. Photography." In 1959 she was named one of the Top Ten Women Photographers by the Professional Photographers of America. Hoban worked as an instructor in photography at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1968. In 1967 she produced and filmed Catsup, an award-winning film which was shown at the Venice Film Festival. By 1955, she had written a book on photographing children, and in 1970 she combined her skills as a photographer with her interest in children to produce her first juvenile picture book, Shapes and Things. In 1973, Hoban served as project photographer for Beginning Concepts, a series of sound filmstrips produced by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. From 1974 to 1976 she taught photography at New York University. As of 1990, five of her books had been listed as ALA Notables. She has received awards for her entire body of work three separate times. In 1991, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from her alma mater, the Moore College of Art. Her works are included in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among other collections in both the United States and France. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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