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Picturebook reviews: New Year reads

Literacy
Meg Barclay, education consultant and early years reviewer for the School Library Association, reviews picturebooks that introduce children to shapes, nursery rhymes and the human body for the EYE supplement

By Simon Philip

Illustrated by Neil Clark

Bonnier Books

November 2024, pp40, £7.99

ISBN: 9781800785052

Reading age: 3+ years

A delightful book about resilience and focusing on the positives in life, despite the problems you may face.

Readers follow Square as he navigates all the difficulties of being a square – having his corners knocked and whacked by other shapes, and not being able to do things easily. He wishes to be different and to be a circle instead.

However, he realises it is not healthy to dwell on negative thoughts, and pledges to enjoy his life and all the positives of being a square. As a result, although his corners still get knocked, he doesn’t seem to mind so much. One day he wakes up to find his corners are gone and he has become a circle!

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