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K-Gr 2—Contentment is a happy, perfect square with "four matching corners and four equal sides." It literally smiles at readers. Even when punched, torn, shredded, shattered, snipped, crumpled, ripped, and wrinkled, it finds a new shape and purpose. A rainbow of boldly colored pages separates each image (or transformation) of the square as each day of the week presents a new challenge an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This near-perfect concept book incorporates an imaginative exploration of colors, a nice assortment of vivid words, and the transformational possibilities of a simple-seeming square. After defining his flat red protagonist both graphically and verbally, Hall personifies it ("it was perfectly happy"), adds a border-exceeding smile, and presages fanciful flights to come by imbuing its basic red with a more nuanced texture. On Monday, cut into tangram-style pieces and punched with hole...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The protagonist, a square, is "perfectly happy." On Monday it arranges itself into a fountain; on Tuesday it becomes a garden,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More