Shapes

The books are designed and created by following the Montessori teaching method, using drawings built up with simple, repeated geometrical forms, minimal details, and sharp outlines defined by the colours that are most easily identified by small children: black and white.

Progressively complex visual features are introduced, including a third colour, red, which children begin to perceive at the age of three months. The introduction of this third colour, the wide variety of subjects, and the encouragement to trace the story paths with their fingers will hold children's attention well beyond their first few weeks of life and through their entire first year.

Four new titles make up this best-selling series for newborns. Shapes is suitable for ages 0 to 12 months.

Author: Agnese Baruzzi was born in 1980 and graduated in Graphic Design at ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche) in Urbino. She has worked as an illustrator and author since 2001, writing more than 40 children's books that have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, the US, France, and South Korea. She is a longstanding collaborator of White Star, illustrating many books for young children.