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Poems of Jack Prelutsky, Margaret Mahy, Ogden Nash, and others reflect a broad ethnic background and the rhythms and sounds of dance.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
PreS-Gr 3-- This lively collection of 18 poems is fun and sprightly, but it is not entirely successful as the dances are named but not described or explained. Among those included are rap, break dancing, hula hoops, boogie, Russian moujik, tap, cancan, polka, polonaise, hula, and shimmy; the verses are full of movement, and so are the illustrations. Although similar in style to Jabar's Alice Ann Gets Ready for School (Little, 1989), the pictures are more vibrant and the pages are not so packed and busy, making the book appealing and easy to read. Fluorescent, Day-Glo shades of neon pink, orange, green, and turquoise predominate, and children of many races (some wearing glasses) play and dance. Generally, the poems can be found in other collections, but the works by Margaret Mahy, Langston Hughes, Lillian Morrison, Jack Prelutsky, Ogden Nash, and others are delightful. This is for a younger audience than Morrison's The Break Dance Kids Poems of Sport, Motion, and Locomotion (Lothrop, 1985). Libraries that have Baylor's Sometimes I Dance Mountains (Scribners, 1973; o.p.), Nelson's Dancing Games for Children of All Ages (Sterling, 1984; o.p.), Ancona's Dancing Is (Dutton, 1981), or strong poetry collections may not need this one. However, while not quite as much fun as Bobette McCarthy's Buffalo Girls (Crown, 1987) or as action-generating as Raffi's Shake My Sillies Out (Crown, 1988), it offers more variety. Attractive, but not a first purchase. --Susannah Price, Boise Pub. Lib., (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
Jabar's buoyant sketchlike figures ``Flip it, flop it, / She hip-hop it'' and ``Shimmy shake it'' throughout this snappy collection of 18 poems about dancing. She depicts such assorted characters as a Scottish bagpiper and Russian dancers, and her varied selections include an Apache song, a Langston Hughes poem and a piece of Ogden Nash tomfoolery. Despite the attempt to provide ethnic diversity, however, the tone of the illustrations seems uniform, each pastel-colored page filled with exuberantly happy, wiggly children. Clever endpapers show progressive steps to several dances, and Jabar has inventively illustrated Jack Prelutsky's ``Forty Performing Bananas'' as a school pageant. While not all of the verses translate well into foot-stomping rhythms (as with some of the traditional rhymes), the juxtaposition of verses from Mother Goose to Margaret Mahy and the humorously busy drawings make for an irrepressible invitation to the dance. Ages 4-8. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Whimsical, exuberant, rhythm-filled, but garishly colored illustrations add strength to an uneven collection of culturally diverse poems, some only loosely fitting into the dance theme. From HORN BOOK 1992, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Eighteen poems summon readers or listeners to join wholeheartedly in poetry's dancing rhythms. As signaled in Jabar's ebullient art, deftly sketched with open pen lines that are drenched in fluorescent colors, the mood here ranges mostly from merry to boisterous, though Langston Hughes's ``Dream Boogie'' and the last two selections--drawn from traditional Apache and Yuma verses about the sun and sky--are quieter. More typical are the play with sound and ideas in Mahy's ``The Man from the Land of Fandango''; Lillian Morrison's ``B Boy'' (``I'm graffiti in motion''); entries from Jack Prelutsky, Ogden Nash, and Mother Goose; and Jabar's own title poem (``Do everything but break it...YELL about it!''). An attractive collection, then, joyfully celebrating children's natural kinesthetic response to poetry. (Poetry/Picture book. 4-8)