Círculo - (Somos8) by Mac Barnett (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule."--

Book Synopsis

Este libro nos habla de Círculo. Y también de sus amigos Triángulo y Cuadrado. Y de saltarse las reglas, el miedo a los extraños y el poder de la imaginación.

Cuadrado y Triángulo van a visitar a su amiga Círculo, que vive cerca de una cascada. Deciden jugar al escondite, pero Círculo pone una única condición: no vale esconderse detrás de la cascada porque está muy oscuro y da mucho miedo. Círculo cierra los ojos y cuenta: 1, 2, 3... Cuando los abre, Cuadrado la avisa de que Triángulo se ha escondido detrás de la cascada. ¡No puede ser! Ahora tienen que ir a buscarlo. ¿Qué otras formas habrá en la terrible oscuridad?

Con un ritmo perfecto y gran ingenio, Mac Barnett y Jon Klassen cierran el círculo de manera magistral a la trilogía de las formas con este divertidísimo álbum ilustrado.

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This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule.

Triangle and Square are visiting Circle, who lives at the waterfall. When they play hide-and-seek, Circle tells her friends the one rule: not to go behind the falling water. But after she closes her eyes to count to ten, of course that's exactly where Triangle goes. Will Circle find Triangle? And what OTHER shapes might be lurking back there?

With their usual pitch-perfect pacing and subtle, sharp wit, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen come full circle in the third and final chapter of their clever shapes trilogy.

Review Quotes

This short story touches on the difficulty of good friendships and how we communicate with each other, and it allows educators and grown-ups to provide an imaginative space for beginning math concepts of shapes. This book concludes with an unanswered open-ended question, calling for readers to think about other possible shapes. A strong choice for Spanish-language collections - Booklist.

About the Author

Mac Barnett is the author of many picture books including Chloe and the Lion and Guess Again! which TIME Magazine named the number 2 Picture Book of the year. He also writes the Brixton Brothers series of mysteries. Two of his collaborations with Jon Klassen, Extra Yarn and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole have won the Caldecott Honor. He is also the author of The Shape Trilogy, illustrated by Jon Klassen, A Polar Bear in the Snow, illustrated by Shawn Harris and Twenty Questions, illustrated by Christian Robinson. He lives in California, USA.

Jon Klassen is the creator of the New York Times bestseller I Want My Hat Back, which was named a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year. He returned with another hat and another thief in This Is Not My Hat, which won the Caldecott Medal and became a New York Times bestseller.