A book offering a plethora of possibilities for interaction (color concept, spatial reasoning, prediction, and types of transportation for a start) begins with a page spread showing a rectangular pattern of yellow, green, blue, and red blocks with die-cuts suggesting a shape. The text asks, “What are you building? What can it be?” A page turn shows the die-cut shape surrounded by white against the block pattern on the previous page to reveal a vehicle made of blocks: car, bus, train, ship, rocket ship. The full rectangle of blocks and two questions repeat on every other spread before the next reveal, giving a sense of pattern and order to the book as a whole that is also visually suggested by the repetition of the block shapes in this clever, developmentally appropriate board book. (Ages 1–3)

An interactive colors and shapes book.

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. 

* An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
* A Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice

This inventive and colorful die-cut board book is all about the many things you can build with blocks. Can you make a car out of them? How about a plane? Turn through the pages of this book to find the answers. It’s full of fun shapes and colors for the youngest readers.