Have You Seen My Monster?

Posted on 26 October 2018 by Steve Light

In a follow up to Steve Light s highly praised Have You Seen My Dragon , the county fair is filled with shapes and somewhere among them a monster is waiting to be found A little girl gallivants through a county fair, searching for her furry friend Readers will surely spot the friendly monster as well as twenty shapes, identified here by their proper names trapezoids, ellipses, kites, and hidden among iconic fair attractions from the fun house to the Ferris wheel Maybe the monster is judging the pies Or perhaps he s at the monster truck rally Youngsters will be so mesmerized by Steve Light s masterful pen and ink illustrations, decorated with vivid splashes of color, they won t even realize they ve learned how to spot a nonagon while looking for a monster. Download Have You Seen My Monster? by Steve Light – kino-fada.fr Two stars is a stretch, and I got to it by deciding that the monster is an imaginary friend How it interacts with other fairgoers then, I don t know, but after loving Have You Seen My Dragon I m desperate to find a redeeming value in this mess I wou...Didn t work for me No real story and the shapes are unnecessarily hard.Richie s Picks HAVE YOU SEEN MY MONSTER by Steve Light, Candlewick, May 2015, 48p., ISBN 978 0 7636 7513 4 In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal length sides that are adjacent to each other In contrast, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal length sides, but they are opposite each other rather than adjacent from the Wikipedia article Kite geometry Save your neck or save your brotherLooks like it s one or the othe Richie s Picks HAVE YOU SEEN MY MONSTER by Steve Light, Candlewick, May 2015, 48p., ISBN 978 0 7636 7513 4 In Euclidean geometry, a kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal length sides that are adjacent to each other In contrast, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal length sides, but they are opposite each other rather than adjacent from the Wikipedia article Kite geometry Save your neck or save your brotherLooks like it s one or the o...No connection whatsoever with the dumb story and the shapes Is this book supposed to teach shapes Do kids who are learning circle and square need to be confronted with curvilinear triangle and trapezium at the same time The drawings clearly show artistic talent, but that s good enough for producing a poster, not a story book Things like The Wing on a Flea A Book about Shapes or The Dot and the Line A Romance in Lower Mathematics might not have the pure doodle quotient that this one has No connection whatsoever with the dumb story and the shapes Is this book supposed to teach shapes Do kids who are learning circle and square need to be confronted with curvilinear triangle and trapezium at the same time The drawings clearly show artistic talent, but that s good enough for pro...Part seek and find book, part exploration of shapes at the county fair no less The variety of shapes included are excellent I can t think of another concept book that includes nonagons and quatrefoils alongside rectangles and circles Ink illustrations are heavily detail...What a great treat I loved Light s Have You Seen My Dragon, but I think I love Have You Seen My Monster evenThe story takes place at a fair Mr Light covers every aspect of a fair amusement park that you can imagine Sumptuous, detailed, exuberant illustrations Destined t...Steve Light takes the concept of his first book and gives it a very interesting spin It is still fun to find the monster in the wonderfully busy fair scenes but he adds an entertaining explanation of shapes to the...I didn t love this one as much as Have You Seen My Dragon The shapes theme didn t feel as natural a fit for the story as counting did in Have You Seen My Dragon Apart from the somewhat forced insertion of shapes into the story, I did love the illustrations, which are both bold in line, not in co...A fun introduction to shapes, especially the less common ones such as quatrefoil and nonagon Could read this book three times once to find the hidden monster on every page, once for a shape study, and once just to hear the story.A strange follow up to what was a wonderful original Hrm.

26 October 2018

Steve Light