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Paddington has a list - a list of shapes which he has to find. The first one was easy - it was a rectangle and he spotted that the front door was a rectangle as he closed it on his way out. There was another shape ticked off as he walked away - all the paving stones were squares! At the corner of the road , there was a 'Men at Work' sign (or 'roadworks ahead' if you prefer not to be sexist) and this was a triangle and there, round the roadworks were some cones! There are still quite a few shapes on his list though - an oval, a circle, a star, a diamond and a heart. It was the heart which would prove most difficult to track down and I'm not going to tell you how Paddington did it, but there just ''might'' be a clue in the title.
I sometimes feel a little bit sorry for children when I see them reading or being shown books about 'shapes' that are very clear, but there's nothing to engage the child's ''mind''. A circle means so much more when you think about it as a manhole cover and you can actually go out and ''find'' one, just the way that Paddington did. An 'oval' is just an abstract shape - but ''eggs'' actually ''mean'' something which a child can understand.
I love the idea that there's a ''story'' in the book - so many board books lack this and it does give the book longevity. It's a delightful book and part of a series of three books. We've also seen {{amazonurl|isbn=0008159777|title=Paddington: King of the Castle}} in which we count seagulls and {{amazonurl|isbn=0008159769|title=Paddington at the Rainbow's End}} in which Paddington goes looking for the colours of the rainbow. They're of the same high standard as ''Paddington and the Disappearing Sandwich'' and I'd like to thank the publishers for sending copies to the Bookbag.
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