The Slow Race: Book and Wood Puzzle

This beautiful book and cherry wood block set is simple, yet extremely clever and loads of fun for all! The story was designed to introduce some of the ways in which three simple shapes can be organized to form a wide variety of people, animals and objects. This is not only fun, but also deeply educational, as it increases the capacity for both creativity and geometric thinking. While reading the story, children and adults alike arrange and fit the blocks in the shapes pictured. Create your own book with the shapes - from flowers to animals to the moon, the creation of objects is limited only by the imagination. Book is 6" square and printed on recycled paper with soy ink. Solid cherry wood puzzle is approx 5.5" diameter. Ages 4 and up.