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A number of animals demonstrate some of the many different ways to dance, from bumping and romping to swirls and plies.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
PreS-Gr 1A simple, rhythmic text celebrates the diversity and energy of dance"Dance to a horn! Dance to a drum. Dance while I sing, dance while I hum." The rollicking verse invites toe-tapping, and the cartoon line drawings portray familiar animals thumping, hopping, swirling, and twirling. Unfortunately, the illustrations aren't as enticing as the playful text. The six-color design includes pea green, mustard yellow, and muted blue, creating a 1950s look. The white backgrounds of some of the double-page spreads lack zest, and the overall visual effect fails to celebrate the vitality of dance. Contemporary children, used to vivid color and images, will find the book lackluster. Linda Lowery's Twist with a Burger, Jitter with a Bug (Houghton, 1995) is a similar title with much greater visual appeal.Heide Piehler, Shorewood Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
A graceful yellow pig and a dainty brown cat twirl through this captivating volume. In the opening pages, an old trunk full of tutus, tiaras, masks, canes and hats sets off a high-spirited, dancing fantasy. Spiraling lines and arrows indicate the animals' constant movement, whether spinning, tapping or swinging their arms. The action carries across every spread, so that the dance seems nonstop, and the staccato "Plink. Plank! Plié. Plop! / I want to dance until I drop" is impossible to read without lively enunciation. They soon join dancing dogs, tortoises, bears and mice for a ball; though there is no background detail, some paper party lights dangling from above and a spray of black-ink confetti suggest a festive mood. Wavy lines and airborne notes emanate from musical instruments; Schumaker's ink drawings-loosely detailed in silk screen-opaque brown, yellow, red, green and blue-are as gestural as Richard McGuire's What Goes Around Comes Around stencils. Yet these illustrations aren't as tightly controlled, and the pen itself seems to flow as effortlessly as a dancer. Ages 3-8. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
A celebration of dancing is led by Timothy Piggot-Smythe and Sylvie LeChat with the assistance of members of the Zoölogical Society Dancers. The full-color illustrations dominated by blue, green, and yellow swirl with movement punctuated by a raplike, simple rhyming text. Read aloud, this book could inspire the whole family to dance. From HORN BOOK 1996, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Schumaker, working in the same style and palette as found in his illustrations for Vivian Sathre's Mouse Chase (1995), gives pig, dogs, and cat center stage. At first the festivities seem to be led by a pig, but he soon fades into the rest of the lithe shapes and airy, twirling lines. ""I want to dance/dance in a mask/dance in the air/dance in a tutu/dance at the fair/I want to dance!"" The text offers some syncopation, but the rhymes start out loud and stay loud; the text has no direction, builds to no climax, and stops, abruptly, when the dancers nap. Pleasant, but flat-footed. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 3^-6. The title says it all. Young readers will want to get up and dance, once they see these cats, pigs, and dogs whirling and twirling around. The rhyming text is slight but has plenty of bounce: Let's make a circle! / Let's make a square! / Let's make a line that goes nowhere / but--to dance! Featuring an exuberant conga line, the impressive two page-spreads that accompany these lines are a delight. In fact, all the pictures, done mostly in yellow, blue, and tan and accented with pen, are wonderfully distinctive; Schumaker has certainly captured the ability to demonstrate motion in his art. Fun for story hours, but watch out--kids might feel like doing the tango instead of fingerplays. --Ilene Cooper