Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano
A fall favorite of many kids, this book is also a fun short movie. Even my husband remembers the name and plot of the book! While we were pumpkin picking the other day, I even heard a child telling his father he was looking for Spookley in the patch! The theme here is that it's okay to be different, and that we should celebrate those differences. We love the rhyming, which allows for our son to help us read along. Here is the read aloud if you can't find the movie streaming.
Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
The concept of this book is great, especially for beginning learners. However, the teacher in me gets a bit annoyed at seeing pumpkins be called circles when they're really more spherical. The books could mention faces of objects being 2D shapes, but chooses to call the objects themselves two dimensional figures. Anyway, my son and I have been searching out shapes in our environment lately, so it was nice to read on the day we went to the nearby pumpkin patch.
Walter's Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood
This book is great for learning about shapes, the engineering process for littles, and alliteration. Walter ties to build webs in the shape of a triangle, circle, square, rectangle, and diamond. There are lots of W words in the book, obviously, and it's pretty repetitive so kids will enjoy joining in. Check out the read aloud below.
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