About Colors in Squares: Inspiring Curiosity by Lil Rustle
Are you looking for a fun way to teach your toddlers about colors and shapes?
Check out “Colors in Squares”—a lively educational picture book with bright illustrations and catchy rhymes!
This book does more than just show colors and shapes. It excites your child as they follow our cute characters asking, “What is (color) and square?” They’ll see objects like an orange window frame and a yellow box, all while enjoying fun, rhythmic rhymes. “Colors in Squares” makes learning enjoyable and helps with language skills.
Key Features:
• Playful Exploration: Join our cute characters as they discover new colors and shapes, sparking curiosity and creativity.
• Vibrant Illustrations: Engage young minds with lively illustrations that bring colors and square shapes to life.
• Discover 10 Colors: Explore 10 bright colors in square shapes, encouraging exploration and a love of learning.
• Everyday Object Connection: Relate learning to familiar objects, making the experience relevant and engaging.
• Rhythmic Rhymes and Repetitive Phrases: Boost language development with rhythmic rhymes and repetition, making learning fun and memorable.
Get your copy now and watch your child’s face light up with each page!
Free coloring sheets download ( a fun addition to the book series) is also available on my website.
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Author Bio:
After spending over 20 years in architecture, I decided to take a sabbatical to explore my hobbies and passions. During this break, I discovered through a YouTube video that I could self-publish my own books. This led me to experiment with digital illustrations and create simple journals.
Around this time, an old friend asked for my help with cute illustrations for a music seminar she was organizing. Remembering how much I loved doodling, I took on the challenge, teaching myself digital art along the way. Completing this project was a huge boost to my confidence and sparked the idea of creating my own children’s book.
I thought back to one of my favorite storybooks from childhood, which started with “a house” and then revealed “a red house.” I loved how the story unfolded. Inspired by this memory, I decided to write a book introducing colors and shapes to little kids, starting with a red balloon.
Since my book is for toddlers, I wanted it to be simple and repetitive so they could easily understand the concepts. I focused on round objects in various colors, eventually featuring ten colors including black and white. I also thought it would be fun to have a boy character who asks questions and introduces the objects, and I added some rhymes to make it more enjoyable.
After completing the first draft of “Colors in Circles,” I refined the story by grouping the round objects into two scenes, each with a rhyme that ties everything together. This approach made the book more cohesive and also gave kids a little break between scenes. Once I settled on this format, creating the second and third books became easier. In the second book, I added a girl character based on reader feedback to make the story more inclusive. For the third book, I gave the characters names to help kids connect with them better.
And that’s how my journey from architecture to becoming a children’s book author began—a journey filled with exploration, creativity, and a desire to bring joy and learning to young readers.