Mac Barnett

Welcome to the world of Circle, a shape who likes to keep things perfectly round and orderly. This story is all about Circle and her two very best friends, Triangle and Square. One day, Circle decides to invent a fun game of hide-and-seek near a dark waterfall. But she makes one very important rule: no one is allowed to hide behind the falling water. Of course, the sneaky Triangle decides to break the rule immediately. Now it is up to Circle to rescue her friend from the mysterious darkness behind the waterfall. What will she find hiding in the deep, dark cave? You are invited to join these quirky shapes on a gentle adventure full of surprising moments. This clever tale explores friendship, the fear of the unknown, and why sometimes breaking the rules leads to the most unexpected discoveries.

Meet Triangle, a sneaky shape with very pointy corners and a mischievous plan. He lives in a house shaped like a triangle, surrounded by triangular objects, but today he is leaving his pointy world to visit his best friend, Square. Triangle has decided to play a very sneaky trick on his perfectly even buddy. He creeps past the triangular rocks, through the shapes without names, and into Square's blocky neighborhood just to hiss like a snake and give him a scare. But Square is not going to let him get away with it that easily. He chases Triangle all the way back home, determined to play a trick of his own. But there is just one problem: Square's wide body might not fit through Triangle's skinny door. You will laugh out loud as you watch these two stubborn friends try to outsmart each other in a hilariously clever battle of shapes.

Square is a very hard worker. Every single day, he goes down into his underground cave, pushes square blocks of stone up to the surface, and adds them to his neat pile. He thinks his life is simple. But one day, his friend Circle floats by and admires his pile. She praises him for being a brilliant sculptor and demands that he carve a perfect portrait of her out of stone. Square is terrified. He is just a block-pusher, not an artist, and carving a perfect circle out of a square block seems completely impossible. You will watch poor Square struggle, chiseling away at the hard stone as he desperately tries to create a masterpiece for his friend. Will he figure out how to make a perfect circle, or will he disappoint his biggest fan? This funny story shows that art is truly in the eye of the beholder.