Shape Families

Lynn Parrish Sutton

Aug 2025 · Star Bright Books

About this ebook

Meet a young cylinder who lives with his sphere grandmother. A hexagon with two trouble-making twin trapezoid sisters. And a trapezoid with heptagon and nonagon moms in a band! Families come in all shapes and sizes! Shape Families celebrates the many forms of love and families that resemble real-world families. Kids will love seeing themselves and their families in this book. Sutton’s clever puns and Tebbit’s playful illustrations make the story a fun read, while the geometric shape glossary in the back makes it an informative one. 

About the author

Lynn Parrish Sutton writes children’s books and nature poetry. Shape Families is her first book with Star Bright Books, and she hopes readers will enjoy getting to know the shapes and their families as much as she did. Her other picture books include Animally, Americanly, Also an Animal, Oceanly, Once Upon a Timely, and Spacely. Her poetry and personal essays have appeared in many publications such as The Christian Science Monitor, Mothering Magazine, and many more. She lives in Vermont with her family and enjoys her four grown-up kids, watercolor painting, walking, knitting, reading, and daily cuddles with her big orange cat.

Jake Tebbit trained as a graphic designer and has an MA in Children’s Book Illustration. Living and working in a farmhouse on a hilly farm in England, Jake knows and loves sheep and other farm animals, which led him to write and illustrate Woolly the Wide-Awake Sheep, a humorous counting book, and he illustrated Pirates in the Library, both published by Star Bright Books. Giggles and laughter are the distinctive qualities that readers always find in his work, and Shape Families is a prime example. Jake enjoys singing, playing traditional British folk music, and traveling when he can.