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12 Shape Books for Preschool

Teach your preschooler about shapes with these adorable picture books!  Our favorite children’s shape books for preschool that feature circles, squares, triangles and more as they explore the concept of shapes.

Which shape book will you read first? 

Shape Books for Preschool

One of the first concepts that children learn about in math are shapes.  Both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional.  Below we’re featuring some of our favorite books that help build an understanding of shapes for your child. These books would be a perfect match for our Shape Stamps with Pipe Cleaners  or Shape Dinosaur Activity with Playdough.

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12 Shape Books for Preschool

You’ll find that the follow shape books will become some of your child’s favorite as they build confidence in identifying shapes.  I’ve added a few extensions below each group of books for ideas to do at home with your child as book extensions.  Plus you can find a few more with our Weekly Book Club for Kids about Shapes.  

 

Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Ship Shapes PB by Stella Blackstone

These featured picture books have inviting colors and illustrations that will encourage your child to read again and again as they learn about shapes.

  


The Shape Of Things 
 by Dayle Ann Dodds
The Greedy Triangle  by Marilyn Burns
Skippyjon Jones Shape Up by Judy Schachner

These featured shape books just might inspire your very own story about shapes.  Pick a shape and see what they of story they are inspired to write with you as your preschooler learns about shapes.

   

Color Zoo  by Lois Ehlert
Montessori: Shape Work by Harry Abrams 
Color Farm by Lois Ehlert 

These classic books give children the opportunity to see the shapes in the world around them and will inspired quite a few art projects! Which animal can you create with shapes?

 

  

Brown Rabbit’s Shapes  by Alan Baker
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
My Very First Book of Shapes by Eric Carle

Bunnies and shapes are quite adorable!  Perhaps they may inspired a shape hunt around the house as a book extension to learn about shapes.

 

  

Perfect Square by Michael Hall
Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly Bingham
Circles by David A. Adler

These books encourage your child to expand beyond the traditional shape identify and explore the world around them.

Books about Shapes for Preschoolers

Our Gruffalo Themed Shaped Animals are one of our favorite Shape Activities to go with a book. See if you can find other books that can be created from Shapes!  Our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids is featuring Mouse Shapes and Mouse Shapes Activities.  Click here to see them all!

For more books about Math Concepts with Kids visit our Ultimate Guide to STEM Books for Kids 

 

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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