Who said story time means sitting quietly on the floor? With the story Clap Your Hands that text encourages the reader (or listener!) to go through a fast and furious series of tasks. Readers will be patting their heads, doing somersaults across the floor, making silly faces, and jumping up and down! Even if the reader does not follow the directions, the energy of this story is visible on the pages, with illustrations showing wonderful movement and excitement. This high energy book will certainly entertain its readers. ( )

This book would be fun for kindergarten. It would be a good book to end the day with. It has a lot of fun movements the students could do while the teacher read the book aloud.

This is one of those books designed for the fidgety story-time goer.

It's full of instructions - clap your hands, tell me your age, I'll tickle you if you tickle me, find something red, that sort of thing.

Great fun for kids to get to move around instead of sitting through a story, this might be a good way to end storytime!

But, because of those good points, board book format might not be the best way to go. The pictures are too small for moving around - you have to sit close to really see them - and some of the instructions are really too hard for the younger rip-up-books crowd anyway. You might be better off waiting a year or two and getting a normal edition instead. ( )

Once you read this, you'll never stop! Because your child will ask you for it over and over and over and over again. This is a book you don't just read, you move to it...right along with all the other characters in the book. Each character is beautifully drawn on a white background. It's excellent! It really adds to the book watching these characters move around the pages. Each character (like each child) has their own interprutation of the movement suggested on the page. It's great! So, stand up and read this book! You'll have a blast! ( )

This book is about animals and children doing a dance and different actions. For instance, they clap their hands, find something red, and roar like a lion.

This book would be a good book to read and have the children do the actions as you say them. I don’t think that children would enjoy this book if they just sat down and read it.

In the classroom, I would read the book through one time, and then the second time I would have the class get out of their seats and do the actions as I read the book. ( )