Cubes, cones, cylinders & spheres

There are shapes all around us. Some are hard and crisp; some are softer and more subtle.

But they are omnipresent in the things we eat, our modes of transportation, the toys we play with, the tools we use, and the structures in which we live and work.

We look at them, but we don't always see them until someone with a keen eye and an unfailing camera lens says, "Come closer, take another look, see everything!" Tana Hoban is a picture book pioneer whose wordless photo essays have set the standard for concept books for the very young.

Here, published thirty years after her first book, is her latest - a wordless exploration of cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres.