Customer Reviews

Clorinda

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is one of our favorites. My daughter asks to read it over and over.

Clorinda is a wonderful book for parents and kids alike. The prose flows poetically with clever rhymes and beautiful artwork to accompany the words. Reading it aloud is a real pleasure. There are books that I find tedious to read aloud, and those rare few that are actually fun. This is definitely a fun one! The story, and the moral of the story, are a bit unexpected. Clorinda goes to cast a ballot and ends up entranced by ballet. Can she make the big time? Can she reach her goal of being a prima ballerina? I can't give away the ending, but suffice to say that the typical story tells kids they can do anything if they try. This one helps them understand that sometimes things don't work out the way we hope, no matter how hard we try -- and that life goes on, happily, afterward. Buy this one!

This is a delightful book that mesmorized my 3 and 6 year old girls. The illustrations are wonderful as well as the rhyming story. The book is fun and has a wonderful message about working towards reaching a dream. I highly recommend this book.

This is such a cute book! My 20-month-old daughter really enjoys it and we enjoy reading it to her. The story is sweet and rhymes nicely and the illustrations by Steven Kellogg are wonderful, as usual.

This is a really sweet story about a dancing cow. It's beautiful written and the pictures are nice too. My 4 year old loves this and asks for me to read it again and again.

This is my favorite book to read to my 3 year old daughter, she and I both love it. The book is very cleverly written in rhyme. The book has great illustrations and an interesting story line.

Clorinda is a light-hearted kids' book, set to verse, about a free-spirited barnyard animal who overcomes criticism of peers to become a ballet dancer, eventually leading other animals in a highly touted barnyard ballet. Nothing wrong with that.

But, there is another book, by another author, written before Clorinda, which meets the EXACT SAME DESCRIPTION. Go read (...)Dumpy La Rue(...) instead. The two books have the same style of writing, the same plot and the same feel. But Dumpy is the original and the better book.