Alphonse and his readers investigate shapes. Alphonse, in his attempts to paint a Valentine, creates a square, a circle and a triangle by mistake. His frustration builds and so does the humour and silliness of the situation. Finally the elusive heart is painted by Alphonse's supportive little side-kick (who happens to be a mouse).

Alphonse Knows...A Circle Is Not A Valentine

Zimmermann, H. Werner

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Carried away by thoughts of spring, Alphonse sets out to paint eggs the colour of spring, but strange thing happen when he starts mixing paints.

The Colour of Spring (Alphonse Knows)

Early Learning

Stoddart Kids

The first book in the Alphonse series deals with shapes. Alphonse, a delightfully wacky artist, attempts to paint a valentine but, by mistake, creates a square, a circle, and a triangle.

A Circle Is Not a Valentine (Alphonse Knows)

Zimmermann, Heinz Werner

Zimmermann, Fitzhh Werner

Literature & Fiction

Fitzhenry-Whiteside

Snow Day

Scholastic, Canada

The children woke up early this morning. They looked out the window to see millions of snowflakes drifting down. Everything was covered in a deep blanket of snow. Eagerly, they waited for the announcement, wondering if the snow was deep enough. Then the magic words came – SNOW DAY! Finding their friends already outside, the children play and play. They make snow angels with their dog, Mupps, and help the older neighbours shovel their walks. They play hockey and tag and make a snow fort. With stinging faces and frozen toes, everyone takes a break for hot chocolate, then it's back outside for more fun in the snow. When at last it's time for sleep, the children fall into bed, exhausted. Will tomorrow be a snow day, too? Governor General's Award-nominated illustrator Werner Zimmermann brings a childlike joy to all his books, and captures all the excitement and wonder of a snow day in this heartwarming story.

Snow day

North Winds Press

Henny Penny

A classic nonsense folktale follows the journey of the scatterbrained Henny Penny and her friends Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey Lurkey, as they race to inform the king that the sky is falling. Reprint.

Scholastic Paperbacks

Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox

scholastic

Cause and effect are humorously apparent in this new edition of an old tale. When the acorn falls on Henny Penny's head, readers will know just where it's come from--two industrious squirrels busily gathering nuts in the trees overhead. (The same two squirrels are seen burying their wealth at the scene of Foxy Loxy's feast on the book's final page.) In similar fashion, Zimmermann extends and lightens this tersely told tale in page after page of colorful watercolor cartoons. Henny Penny and friends appear appropriately plump and foolish, each with a pot, pan, or other hastily acquired headgear

Pollita chiquita

Zimmerman, H. Werner

Animals

Scholastic, en español

Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox.

Pollita Chiquita/Henny Penny (Henny Penny/Big Book) (Spanish Edition)

Circle Is Not A Valentine (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

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Alphonse Knows...A Circle Is Not A Valentine

The Colour of Spring (Alphonse Knows)

A Circle Is Not a Valentine (Alphonse Knows)

Snow Day

Snow day

Henny Penny

Henny Penny

Pollita chiquita

Pollita Chiquita/Henny Penny (Henny Penny/Big Book) (Spanish Edition)

Circle Is Not A Valentine (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)