Book Descriptions
for Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Mischievous Triangle lives in a triangular world where everything fits just right. When he ventures out into the world and finds other shapes, he decides to play a sneaky trick on Square. Knowing Square’s fear of snakes, he hisses right at the square-shaped door of his square-shaped home, and when Square realizes he’s been fooled, he chases Triangle back into his triangular world, and gets stuck in Triangle’s door. But the joke turns out to be on Triangle because guess who’s scared of the dark? Klassen’s illustrations manage to give a lot of character to geometrical shapes with minimal details, and they add greatly to the humor of this witty story. (Ages 4-7)
CCBC Choices 2018. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2018. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen conspire again on a slyly funny tale about some very sneaky shapes.
Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy, partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes. Visually stunning and full of wry humor, here is a perfectly paced treat that could come only from the minds of two of today’s most irreverent — and talented — picture book creators.
Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy, partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes. Visually stunning and full of wry humor, here is a perfectly paced treat that could come only from the minds of two of today’s most irreverent — and talented — picture book creators.
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