Wooden alphabet blocks. A Halloween witches’ hat. A ship’s smokestacks. A bubble from a child’s wand. This wordless book depicts the four geometric shapes in the title with a series of full-page, full-color photographs featuring mostly everyday objects and activities. The fun comes not just in identifying the shapes but also in discovering what some of the photographs reveal with a bit of study. Is the top of that light pole with the sphere-shaped bulbs a cylinder? How many of the shapes can you find in that photograph of the castle? (Ages 5-9)

Cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. Sounds sophisticated? Only until you look at Tana Hoban's incomparable photographs and realize that those shapes are the stuff of everyday life. They are all around us all the time. In our houses, on our streets, in our hands. In yet another breathtaking book, Tana Hoban wakes us up to our world and makes us see it.