Apples and Robins

PreS-Gr 3—Using bold, colorful die-cut pages and large, clean shapes, this work moves through the seasons via the simple story of a girl with an apple tree in her yard. The apples grow and are harvested and enjoyed all winter long. The girl loves her tree and cares for the robins that nest there. Through the use of skillfully placed geometric cut-outs, she describes how everyday objects can be visually created with paper and color. Circles make apples, rectangles make a ladder, and triangles and parallelograms make a birdhouse! While this offering will expertly show children the beauty of manipulating shapes, older readers will marvel at the illusion created by color, negative space, shape, and size. American readers might be puzzled to see the robin's brown speckled egg, but the note on the title pages says that the book is about the European robins that live in Félix's garden in France.