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PreS–Set in the city on a hot summer day, this joyful book presents a high-energy portrait of a young girl. With her mother at work and her brother at camp, she has "nothing to do" and a case of "the summertime blues" that can only be cured by dancing. From breakfast to dinner, she is in perpetual motion as she and her grandfather spend a busy day playing outside, going to the zoo, and enjoying a rainstorm. The story ends on a happy note as everyone comes home and Momma makes dinner. Both text and illustrations seem to be in motion as the child twirls around on the street, runs through the water from a hose, and bounces on her bed. The large watercolor illustrations are part cartoon and part impressionistic. With washes and bleeds forming backgrounds and highlights, the pictures look like energy itself. The text includes plenty of rhyming words and a catchy beat. A refreshing looseness allows all of this motion, verbal and visual, to be inviting rather than frantic. An upbeat tribute to the vitality and freedom of a preschooler.–Liza Graybill, Worcester Public Library, MA
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PreS-K. The dancing featured in this exuberant picture book is a little girl's toe-tapping prescription for her summertime blues. Too young to go to day camp with her big brother, the child--a toddler with cafe au lait skin and charming tufts for pigtails--shimmies through a day with Grandpa, who eventually gets into the groove, too. Helldorfer's text is great for reading aloud, although the verses present unpredictable rhythms and rhyme patterns that may require a few practice runs: "Bare feet--yow!-- / the burning hot street / makes me dance, dance." The energy of the words is reinforced both by a swooping type design and Nakata's spontaneous watercolors, which locate the girl and her granddad in a cheerful city (New York?) that moves to its own pulsing beat. When reading this to groups, build in a bit of time for little ones to shake out their wiggles; the wild rhythms of both text and art are likely to be infectious. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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PreS–Set in the city on a hot summer day, this joyful book presents a high-energy portrait of a young girl. With her mother at work and her brother at camp, she has "nothing to do" and a case of "the summertime blues" that can only be cured by dancing. From breakfast to dinner, she is in perpetual motion as she and her grandfather spend a busy day playing outside, going to the zoo, and enjoying a rainstorm. The story ends on a happy note as everyone comes home and Momma makes dinner. Both text and illustrations seem to be in motion as the child twirls around on the street, runs through the water from a hose, and bounces on her bed. The large watercolor illustrations are part cartoon and part impressionistic. With washes and bleeds forming backgrounds and highlights, the pictures look like energy itself. The text includes plenty of rhyming words and a catchy beat. A refreshing looseness allows all of this motion, verbal and visual, to be inviting rather than frantic. An upbeat tribute to the vitality and freedom of a preschooler.–Liza Graybill, Worcester Public Library, MA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
PreS-K. The dancing featured in this exuberant picture book is a little girl's toe-tapping prescription for her summertime blues. Too young to go to day camp with her big brother, the child--a toddler with cafe au lait skin and charming tufts for pigtails--shimmies through a day with Grandpa, who eventually gets into the groove, too. Helldorfer's text is great for reading aloud, although the verses present unpredictable rhythms and rhyme patterns that may require a few practice runs: "Bare feet--yow!-- / the burning hot street / makes me dance, dance." The energy of the words is reinforced both by a swooping type design and Nakata's spontaneous watercolors, which locate the girl and her granddad in a cheerful city (New York?) that moves to its own pulsing beat. When reading this to groups, build in a bit of time for little ones to shake out their wiggles; the wild rhythms of both text and art are likely to be infectious. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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