Snippets: A Story About Paper Shapes

My son asked for this book after having been read it at school, and being happy to support his reading I obliged. The imagery in the book was simple but also fun and full of character. As we read on I was drawn to the strong sentiment of the story and the beautiful conclussion. It's a fun, engaging read for a young child and has a great moral to the story in its climax. I would recommend it and glad my son had also.

It all started with Scribble, then came the Dots, the Shapes, and the Snippets! On one of the rare weekends I was home, away from work, my son gathered the whole series, grabbed his paints, scissors, and constructions papers, and said he wanted to make scribbles, dots, shapes, and snippets with me! We spent more than 2 hours cutting, coloring, talking, and laughing! The next day, and the following, and the following, for almost a month now, son started to build a whole Snippet City (seriously, I need to vacuum now!). A city complete with walls, houses, fire station, zoo, bridges, trees, roads, even signs. My son has gone crazy creative--and all he needed was paper, crayons, a scissors, and...well...some time with mom! He even asked me to take pictures so he could send them to the author. What more can a children's book accomplish? Thank you Ms. Alber!

Super cute book, I love sharing it with my students.

If you haven't seen Diane Alber's entire series of books, do yourself a favor and grab them all. They are perfect for ages 3-6 and inspire creativity and lots of fun art project while encouraging kindness and friendship. Perfect for a classroom or your craft table.

Snippets is a phenomenally engaging story that touches on some heavy topics for any child, fitting in, diversity, and how different isn't a bad thing. Throughout all of this story the author has managed to incorporate a basic geometry lesson and teaching children to identify shapes throughout! My niece and nephew were fully engaged on both fronts, with the capping moment, as we closed the book, being them pointing to the book and yelling "rectangle!". Strongly recommend!

My class enjoyed this book. We did an activity and created our own snippets!

A great book to read before a shape collage project! :)

This is one of those super cute books the kids and little padawans just love. And it teaches diversity and acceptance, which is a huge plus. No forced agenda, just common sense diversity acceptance. The force is strong with this little book.