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Square

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Square by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

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By Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

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30 reviews

From the dream team of Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett comes the second instalment in the exciting new shape trilogy.

Every day, Square brings a block out of his cave and pushes it up a steep hill. This is his work. When Circle floats by, she declares Square a genius, a sculptor! “This is a wonderful statue,” she says. “It looks just like you!” But now Circle wants a sculpture of her own, a circle! Will the genius manage to create one? Even accidentally?

Reviews

18 Dec 2025

I loved it!

19 Aug 2025

It was a nice book

09 Aug 2025

This is my favourite in the collection.

01 Sep 2024

I like the happy ending

30 Aug 2024

I recommend this book because it tells us unexpected things can happen.

19 Aug 2024

I liked the character of square.

01 Oct 2023

I enjoyed it.

22 Aug 2023

Love, love, love.

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen just seem to be able to create the perfect balance between silliness and philosophy.

Square's work is to push blocks up a hill but when Circle mistakes him as a sculptor he has a different challenge he needs to face.

I would recommend to all as it is just a great book.

17 Aug 2023

I loved this series of books. I thought circle was a good friend

01 Aug 2023

I like squares and circles

16 Sep 2022

Yes, it was about a square who was worried he fail

15 Aug 2022

It told me square was not a genius and square worked hard

15 Aug 2022

It was amazing

14 Aug 2022

I like this book we have it at nursery

30 Jul 2022

Wonderful. Highly reccomend to anyone and everyone. Very funny.

29 Jul 2022

Bit of an unusual story. Found it boring

28 Jul 2022

Was quite good but not as good as some of the others.

04 Sep 2021

I love this book. I read it to my brother and to my biggest brother. The only difficult word was beguiling and even Mum wasn't sure why they used that word in a children's book.

04 Sep 2021

Square is very funny me and my little brother loved it. He read it to me two times.

05 Aug 2021

This book is one of my favourite books. I loved the pond that looked like the Circle I really enjoyed this book. Thank you.

02 Aug 2021

I liked the sculpting,

24 Jul 2021

I did t like this book

16 Jul 2021

I liked that square just did a reflection. Square is a genius.

02 Jan 2021

I enjoyed both these stories they’re funny

02 Jan 2021

This is a good book, we have it at my school too

20 Aug 2020

I thought Square was quite an idiot when he tried to carve the square block into a circular block. My favourite character was Circle because she is perfect. I don’t know why Circle doesn’t have any legs - actually if she did have legs then she wouldn’t be perfect.

17 Aug 2020

Very fun I love it

13 Aug 2020

This is a really funny book because circle thought square was a genius so she asked him to make a sculpture of her. But, he could not because he did not know how. So, it started raining and all the rocks made a circle around a rain pool. When circle came back the next morning, she looked in the water and saw herself. She thought it was a sculpture but it was actually her reflection!

09 Aug 2019

This is a funny story

09 Aug 2019

I love it so much. I like all the squares and that's it's a story about a square

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