ALA Booklist (Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2017)

Simplicity's the key to this board book that deals solely in lines, squares, and circles. These basic shapes are the building blocks for scenes of increasingly broad scope. Things start small with a town constructed of square, windowed buildings on line-straight streets. Add circles to the mix, and vehicles putter along the roads, steered by round-faced stick people. Later pages zoom out for an aerial view of neighboring towns connected by streets, until a final spread pulls out further to reveal circular planets orbiting the sun. Saturated colors, primarily in blue and green, lend cheer to this creative concept lesson.

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Lines have the ability to connect and define-something Naberhaus and Beck portray with grace in a board book that opens with a single vertical line and expands to encompass the entire solar system. It-s an exercise in building: one line becomes four, and the resulting square turns into a building in a town crisscrossed by roads (more lines). Curved lines form circles, which become vehicles to fill those roads. There-s a quiet poetry to Naberhaus-s ultra-spare text (-Lines/ Squares/ Circles/ Go up/ Go Down/ Lines/ Squares/ Circles/ All around-), and Beck-s bright illustrations play with form, perspective, and geometry as a town, community, and planet grow from the most basic of building blocks. Ages 2-4. Author-s agent: Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary. (Aug.)

School Library Journal (Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2018)

Toddler-PreS A simple line becomes a square, squares, and a town, while another forms a circle, circles, and wheels. Together they become roads, towns, and a planet, as the view expands ever outward. Subtle and original. Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal