City Shapes
Book description
A truck rumbling by to deliver the mail,
a silvery cart with hot pretzels for sale,
and stacks of brown packages hauled up the stairs...
Some shapes in the city are...
on-the-go squares!
City Shapes is an ode to city life, depicted from the points of view of a young…
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Why read it?
1 author picked City Shapes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
One of my favorite things to do in New York City is to walk around and look at everything. Whether people-watching or admiring the architecture or visiting a museum— there is always something new to see! The city is truly an ever-changing work of art, and art is made up of shapes. Through rhyming text and colorful watercolor and collage illustrations, this book explores the natural and human-made shapes of the city through the eyes of a young girl as she observes the world around her.
From Jennifer's list on nonfiction about New York City.
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