ROUND
Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ISBN: 9780544387614, Ages 3-7
I love round things.
I like to feel their smoothness.
My hands want to reach
around their curves.
The world is bursting, swelling, budding, and ripening with round things: eggs ready to hatch, sunflowers stretching toward the sun, planets slowly spinning together for billions of years. Follow a young girl and her father as they explore their world and discover all that is round. Find out why this shape occurs in nature so often . . . and why we love it so much!
Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
“A serene invitation to see and to think about both shape and concept.”
*Kirkus (starred review)
“A fascinating insight into what makes round shapes so remarkable. A round of applause for this one.”
*Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
“Sidman captures the perfection of the simplest of shapes in this poetic ode to roundness . . . [and] how the mundane can become magical if you look closely.”
*Booklist (starred review)