Color Farm - Concept Book

While I thought that Color Farm by Lois Ehlert was cute, it was not at all what I thought it was going to be. When I went to the library looking for a concept book, this was what the librarian showed me. I assumed from the title that it would be a book on colors. This was, however, another lesson to me not to judge a book by it's cover. This book alternated pages telling shapes and names of animals (made from the shapes). It was neat because all of the shapes were actually cut out of the pages, but I didn't like the format. I didn't think it was always obvious that the animal was as labeled and I thought it a bit strange that the shape on the left side of the page had nothing to do with the farm animal on the right side. I would not have this book in my classroom. There are many better books to teach shapes and animals, and there are DEFINITELY better books to teach color.