Moving Blocks: An Interactive Colors and Shapes Book

by Yusuke Yonezu

Winner of:
CCBC Choices 2016, Picture Books for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers


What are you building? What can it be?
 
 
An irresistible guessing game, this book asks simple questions for identifying objects that move. The vivid pictures in the book can be reinforced through play with building blocks, allowing young imaginations to grow.
 

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime, Transport

26 pages, Board Book

First published March 16, 2011

Reviews

[Allie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This board book is part guessing game, part transportation story. I like looking at the blocks of color and trying to find the intended picture but also any other image I can muster up. This was always a fun last book for playgroup because the final mode of transport is a rocket ship which segued perfectly into zoom zoom zoom! Sadly there isn't any stock so I can't reorder it :(

[Radia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is creative and intelligent!

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Colorful die-cut blocks on flaps lift to reveal different moving objects. Thus, young readers can try to guess what the pages will reveal and even try to make them with their own blocks. Young readers will be delighted to find a bus, a train, and a ship, among other vehicles. I love the book's title too since that's exactly what's happening in two senses of the word--the blocks are moving and they reveal something that help humans move from one place to the next.

[Laura McLoughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Different from you typical cut-out board book. I liked it. The colors and shapes are certainly eye-catching.

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a cool book! Toddlers loved it.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun book for the tiniest humans. Nice repetition, cool pictures.

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very 'Tetristic' and fun!

[Melissa Swistek · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars. I really liked this book. My 13 month old was not impressed. I think this might be more fun for an older toddler. The pages encourage you to guess what vehicle is being formed by a block tower. This builds the imagination and was clever in its execution.

Perhaps I will return to this book for future childhood education.

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big hit with Rowan, this one. Very simple, but works well. He loves the rocket ship most of all, and will turn the book and blast it off into space, flying it around while we sit in the chair. So we have to do it early on in nap and bedtime reading, because he's too stoked to fly the rocket.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty, but very "busy" in design and very few visual cues to help small children understand the cutouts. Maybe this was designed for 10y+?

[Gail Zachariah]

Describes things that can be made from toy blocks, including a car, bus and plane. Ages 1 - 3. Making, Imagination.

[Becca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colorful, peek-a-boo holes, guess what I made.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A tangram board book about shapes becoming vehicles. Cutouts in pages. Cute Toddler and up.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listed in CCBC Choices 2016 under Picture Books for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers. This board book with cut out pages invited readers to look within for hidden shapes that form vehicles. Not always easy, but engaging just the same. Sweet Spot: Toddlers-Preschoolers

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

A creative peek-through book filled with color and a dose of childhood imagination that will leave little readers to become little builders.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Building various modes of transportation with blocks.

[Anastasia Tuckness · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is the best combination of possibilities for discovery and learning through cutouts and being sturdy at the same time. Every other page has a design that could be built with standard building blocks, and every 2nd page has a cutout in the shape of a vehicle that becomes clear as you turn the page. It's pretty amazing and would be super fun to pair with building actual blocks.