How Do You Dance?
How Do You Dance? book cover

How Do You Dance?

Price
$9.49
Format
Hardcover
Pages
40
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1419734182
Dimensions
9.15 x 0.65 x 10.4 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

Description

**STARRED REVIEW** "A gleeful, tender celebration of self-expression through movement, destined to become a favorite read-aloud."― Kirkus Reviews **STARRED REVIEW** "Heder explores dance with pages of graceful, rhythmic watercolors that show people of myriad ages, ethnicities, shapes, and abilities stretching, bopping, spinning, and swaying. Moves executed in exuberance, impulsiveness, and self-care climax in a gigantic, inclusive dance party complete with glittery disco ball. Heder’s stream of dancers encourages everyone to find a way to dance—even, perhaps, the most stubborn nondancers."― Publishers Weekly "Children and adults of many skin tones, body types, and dance styles boogie through this book. . . Warm and funny, this lively picture book would work equally well as a raucous readaloud and a companion to creative movement activities."― Horn Book Magazine "This bopping, grooving picture book will inspire readers to get up and dance themselves."― School Library Journal Thyra Heder is the author of Fraidyzoo , The Bear Report , and Alfie . She is also an illustrator and storyboard artist for film and advertising. She lives in Brooklyn.

Features & Highlights

  • A playful picture book that urges readers to bop, bounce, and shake, from the award-winning author of
  • Alfie
  • and
  • Fraidyzoo
  • .
  • There are so many ways to dance! You can jiggle or wiggle or stomp. You can bop or bounce or go completely nuts. You can dance at the market or the bus stop, with your fingers or your face. You can dance because you’re happy or even because you’re sad. But, what’s the best way to dance? Exactly how you want to! In
  • How Do You Dance?
  • , award-wining author/illustrator Thyra Heder explores dance in all of its creativity, humor, and—most of all—joy, in a picture book celebration of personal expression that will inspire young and old readers alike to get up and get moving.
  • “Heder explores dance with pages of graceful, rhythmic watercolors that show people of myriad ages, ethnicities, shapes, and abilities stretching, bopping, spinning, and swaying. Moves executed in exuberance, impulsiveness, and self-care climax in a gigantic, inclusive dance party complete with glittery disco ball. Heder’s stream of dancers encourages everyone to find a way to dance—even, perhaps, the most stubborn nondancers.” —
  • Publishers Weekly
  • (Starred Review)

Customer Reviews

Rating Breakdown

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(260)
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(108)
★★★
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(65)
★★
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Most Helpful Reviews

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Free children’s imaginations to express themselves in movement

This is a book that illustrates the many ways people dance in a multicultural nation such as the US (with the addition of a few dinos, horsies and robots on the final pages). It even includes a boy who steadfastly refuses to dance with the others. I recommend it highly to anybody who wants to share the joy of expressive movement with young children.
Note: Although the book as a whole will appeal mostly to preschoolers, there are some wonderful illustrations of dancing adults and teens, too, especially on the fly leaves!
10 people found this helpful
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Fun book!

My 4 yr old son loves this book. We laugh at the pictures and do some of the dance moves while reading it! Fun book for kiddo's!
8 people found this helpful
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Great for a movement storytime in library PE or music

Liked Alfie, but love this one! What a diverse cast of characters- the dancing janitor was hilarious.
Perfect for PE and music teachers and a library storytime. The dialogue with the non-dancing boy adds an element to make it more of a story and not just a book with pictures and words saying to just dance like this or like that. Ages 2-8.
8 people found this helpful
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Dance Worthy

My four year old nephew loved this book. He enjoyed emulating the different dance moves from the book.
3 people found this helpful
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Well done!

My 4 yr old grandson took to it immediately
3 people found this helpful
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Turned out to be a family joke😂

Wr actually loved this book and ended up dancing some of the dances on the last page and made people guess which one we were doing. The Poot was obviously the kids favorite
3 people found this helpful
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Dance any way you want!

Adorable story about the fun of dancing
2 people found this helpful
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Learn the moves

Ballerina girl loves the dancing moves
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Not worth it..

Falls flat.. not worth it.
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Great story

Fun book. Great story
1 people found this helpful