On This Page
Description
A bespectacled fiddle-playing cow and a pig twirling a sheep are featured in a barnyard dance. On board pages with a die-cut cover.Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
My first memory of this book was when I had my 2 year old in baby ballet. The teacher read this book and the tiny bunheaded toddlers payed rapt attention. Following the story they each got to preform an interpretive dance of one of the barnyard animals. This book works for more than just tiny ballerinas. It has appeal to toddlers of all sorts. It leads in very well to active play after a story, and the sturdy board format will hold up to even the tiniest of readers/listeners.
Get ready for a foot-stomping good time. This board book captures the thumping pace of a square dance, with moves suited to the barnyard animals that populate the story. Time to skitter with mice, or trot with the turkeys. How about leaping like a frog? My girls absolutely adore this book. It helps that my husband and I read it while we act out all the moves with them. As is true of other Boynton books, the text has a perfect read aloud rhythm, the illustrations are cute and funny, and the story is a joy to read. Bed time is a lot more fun when we include this book in our routine.
I love the square dancing energy and all the animal sounds of this little song on paper. Super fun for read aloud!
Cartoon farm animals that are wacky enough to make you laugh out loud and rhymes clever enough to sustain those nearly infinite re-readings.
This is a great lesson for verbs and how they are used in a rhythmic rhyming way.
This is a great lesson for verbs and how they are used in a rhythmic rhyming way.
This one is great for babies and toddlers, and even slightly older kids can get into it. It's one of the ones I really wish existed as a non-board book!
The illustrations are cute, the text is simple and catchy - what more do you want?
The illustrations are cute, the text is simple and catchy - what more do you want?
Sandra Boynton is one of my favorite children's authors. In her book Barnyard Dance we see farm animals do-see-doing around. The words create their own rhythm which makes it a fast favorite of adults and children alike.
One of our favourite Boynton board books. The simple clear and cheerful drawings are great for toddlers. The rhythmic rhyming text is fun to read aloud, and older children can do the actions to the barn dance. We read this so often we had it memorized, and we got the kids to dance to it. A winner!
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Best children's picture books
377 works; 85 members
Best Board Books for Babies
53 works; 13 members
Brightly Beaming Curriculum Books
281 works; 8 members
Overdue Podcast
803 works; 9 members
Favorite Picture Books
479 works; 160 members
Author Information
150+ Works 54,724 Members
Sandra Boynton was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Boynton's parents became Quakers when she was two years old. From kindergarten through 12th grade, she and her sisters attended Germantown Friends School, where their father taught English and was Head of the Upper School. She went show more on to Yale, entering in 1970 for her second year of college. She spent the second semester of her junior year studying in Paris through Wesleyan University's program. At Yale, she majored in English. Boynton intended to become a theater director. For graduate studies in drama, she attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year, then transferred to the Yale School of Drama D.F.A. program, but she did not complete the program. With the birth of her first child in 1979, Boynton postponed indefinitely a career in the theater. Boynton began designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. Her designs were at the forefront of the Alternative Cards commercial movement that began in the mid-1970s. According to RPG co-founder and president Mike Keiser, over 200 million copies of Boynton's distinctive humorous cards featuring an assortment of unnamed cartoon animal characters, spare layout, and droll messages sold between 1973 and 1995. Since the 1977 release of Hippos Go Berserk!, Boynton has published many children's books, as well as several illustrated humor books for the general market. Her books are most typically for very young children, offered in the laminated paperboard format known as board books. Five of her books have been New York Times best sellers: Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; Frog Trouble and Eleven Other Pretty Serious Songs; Yay, You!; Consider Love; and Philadelphia Chickens, which reached the number one position on the list, and was on the list for nearly a year. Two of her books are Publisher's Weekly bestsellers, Dinosaur Dance!, and Eek! Halloween!. Three of Boynton's books are on the Publishers Weekly All-Time Bestselling Children's Books list. More than 30 million copies of her books have been sold. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Awards and Honors
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Work Relationships
Is contained in
Has the adaptation
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Barnyard Dance!
- Original publication date
- 1993
- Dedication
- To Uncle John of Skookil Express
- First words
- Stamp your feet!
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With an OINK and a MOO and a QUACK QUACK QUACK, the dance is done, but we'll be back!
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- A free download of the song by recorded Uncle John Stey is available here:
https://www.workman.com/products/barnyard-dance/boardbook
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 3,513
- Popularity
- 4,671
- Reviews
- 35
- Rating
- (4.23)
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 13
- UPCs
- 2
- ASINs
- 7