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Dancing Feet [Library Binding]

Charlotte Agell (Author)


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April 1994 3 and up
A spare, rhythmic text and bold illustrations focus on feet walking, skipping, and dancing; on hands digging, baking, and playing; on mouths sipping, tasting, and speaking; and on the cultural diversity and similarities of people around the world.

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From Publishers Weekly

With roughly executed watercolors and a light rhyming ditty, Agell aims to celebrate ethnic differences and similarities: "People young and old / doing what they do, / living in the world, / and one of them is you!" While the text emphasizes what people have in common ("Eyes, eyes / looking left and right, / crying tears sometimes / resting through the night"), the illustrations feature various multiethnic, multiracial crews. Sometimes Agell groups together people of different colors, sometimes she focuses on her subjects' clothing (one composition shows two figures from the waist down; the first is clad in pantaloons fringed gaucho-style, the second wears an Asian-type robe and thongs). The illustrations themselves are uneven, ranging from the suggestively simple to the excessively cartoonish; however, they convey the energy implicit in the text. Ages 3-7.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-Feet are just the beginning of what this simple, delightful story covers. A brief, rhyming text mentions a body part and gives three examples of what it does. ("Hands, hands/digging in the sand,/baking homemade bread,/ playing in the band." Primitive, colorful illustrations done in watercolor and framed in black expand the text. Agell shows individuals from a variety of cultures engaging in activities, making this a good choice to introduce similarities and differences among people. Use with Nigel Gray's Country Far Away (Orchard, 1989) and Ina R. Friedman's How My Parents Learned to Eat (Houghton, 1987).
Lesley McKinstry, Findlay-Hancock County Public Library, OH
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  • Library Binding
  • Publisher: Gulliver Books; 1st edition (April 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0152004440
  • ISBN-13: 978-0152004446
  • Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,288,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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