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About the pagination of this eBook Due to the unique page numbering scheme of this book, the electronic pagination of the eBook does not match the pagination of the printed version. To navigate the text, please use the electronic Table of Contents that appears alongside the eBook or the Search function. For citation purposes, use the page numbers that appear in the text. B R I TA N N I C A DI SC OV ER Y LIBRARY 7 SH A PES In this book, you will: discover interesting things about shapes. learn new words. answer fun questions. play a shape matching game. find more shape activities at the back of the book. C HICAGO L ONDON N EW D ELHI PARIS S EOUL S YDNEY TAIPEI T OKYO Slowly a plant takes shape from the seed as it’s warmed by the sun and watered by rain. Deep in the earth lies a tiny seed. The shape of this seed is round. Just as the plant changes shape as it grows, your shape will change too, again and again! The seed will burst open and become something new as it grows beneath the ground. 2 3 Think of cars and boats, animals and toys. All of these things have their own shapes. We can recognize many things in our world by their shapes. of ny n a o w m es Ho shap ges the ese pa u th an yo c me? na 4 5 Some things can be many different shapes. There are so many cars on the road, but the cars don’t all look the same. They are different shapes. But they are all still cars. Look at the boats and bicycles moving by. They are all different shapes too! 6 7 Houses also have many different shapes. Your house may look a lot like the other houses in your neighborhood. But it might have a very different shape than houses in other parts of the world. of ny ses a Do hou e se the ok lik? lo urs yo of ich uses h W ho ou se h t e ould y ive w to l e k li in? Te abo ll a st o livi ut pe ry opl ng of t in on e hou hese e ses . 8 9 Look closely at the different trees shown here. They are all different shapes. But the leaves on each tree have the same shape. 10 Can you match the big leaves shown here with the tree that they belong to? 11 Some things stay the same shape unless something happens to change them. Ice cubes melt when the air is warm. The clouds change shape before a storm. 12 Blow up a balloon and just like that, you’ve got a balloon that’s big and fat! Bubble gum gets soft and gooey as soon as you start to chew it. 13 Many shapes have special names. These names help us to talk about the world around us. On some nights, the moon looks as round as a ball. Other times it looks curved. The windows in your house may all be square. The front door is probably a rectangle. nd rou ou a y k Loo room ow the e in. Hapes ar y sh u n ma an yo ? c me na 14 15