ESL Reading List: Colors, Shapes, Sizes

Meeow the cat and his friends find fun and inventive things to do with a blue table, a red blanket, and wooden blocks.

Quiet Bunny loves the beautiful colors of springtime in the forest so much, he wants to change his fur's winter colors.

Playful monsters combine their favorite crayons, red, yellow, and blue, to create new colors, including one never before seen.

This book looks at the colors in English. Main text on each page is provided only in English, with simple, labeled photographs providing support. A pronunciation guide at the end of the book explains how each word featured in the book should be pronounced.

Compares a variety of objects to others with the same shape, such as bubbles and scoops of ice cream, bricks and ice cubes, and bicycle wheels and pizza.

Three mice make a variety of things out of different shapes as they hide from a scary cat.

When kids and dinosaurs play together, they come across a lot of different shapes. Can you spot all the shapes?

The names of colors are woven into poems that celebrate the seasons.

Introduces shapes, including circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and stars, with colorful illustrations. On board pages.

This book helps toddlers see the shapes all around them, from circle-shaped tractor wheels to the triangle found on a bicycle frame.

Identifies different colors under liftable flaps which reveal a surprise shape at the end of the book.

Smiley faces can be seen in these photographs of many common objects.

Text in English and Spanish.

Circles -- Triangles -- Squares.

Explores the relationships between real-world objects and their colors, illustrating that each color comes in many different shades and that familiar objects sometimes come in unexpected colors, such as green bananas.

Provides illustrations of American Sign Language signs and Spanish and English text for various colors and shapes.