Have You Seen My Monster? by Steve Light
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Have You Seen My Monster is set at a county fair with a little girl looking for her friend and finding an array of shapes as she hunts.
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As she hunts for her monster high and low, from carousel to pie contest to fun house, a box in the upper right hand corner of each page names a shape that is also the only spot of color in each illustration.
Light brings a fantastic selection of shapes to Have You Seen My Monster as well. Along with all the shapes we would expect to see is a trapezium (found on a tractor) and a parallelogram, a curvilinear triangle and a heptagon. And, of course, Light includes the nonagon. As the book comes to a close, the little girl finds her monster hanging out with the stuffed prizes at a game booth. The two leave the fair, hand in paw, as the crescent moon hangs in the sky!
Source: Review Copy