Dancing Feet!

"Tippity! Tippity! / Little black feet! / Who is dancing / that tippity beat? / Ladybugs are dancing / on tippity feet. / Tippity! Tippity! / Happy feet!" And so begins this rhythmic picture-book, in which a series of creatures dance in everything from a stompity to a slappity way...

Author Lindsey Craig and illustrator Marc Brown, who subsequently collaborated on Farmyard Beat, deliver a fun read-aloud selection with Dancing Feet!, which pairs a simple, poetic text with appealing collage artwork in vibrant colors. Recommended to anyone looking for poetic picture-books for the toddler set.

Craig excels at creating rhythmic, amusing rhymes that incorporate some guesswork as well as interaction on the reader's part. Brown's illustrations are dimensional and expressive. Another title I must have missed adding to GR in the last few years - it's been a favorite for a while.

This book is so adorable! It has poetry (a good beat for reading), questions (with clues and answers), and great pictures (collages of bright colors and textures). I can't wait to read it to my granddaughter.

With joyous, rhythmic, and onomatopoeic descriptions, Dancing Feet allows children to play a guessing game throughout the pages of the book, figuring out which animal is dancing. Marc Brown’s “cut out” paper like illustrations give the right amount of clues for children to guess what animal it is. With the flip of the page the answer is the revealed, and children see what animal makes a “thumpity-thumpity” noise with its feet. This book is perfect for a preschool or kindergarten classroom library. It will get students thinking and excited about reading, and is also a motivator for kids to keep moving and stay active.

A happy, bouncy, rhyming text that just begs to be read aloud, with colorful collage illustrations by Marc Brown. Love that it's dedicated to Leo Lionni.

This colorful picture book feautres sound words to match the noises made by various animals feet. There is a pattern: on a two page spread, with one page of text is first two sound words, followed by a description of the feet, and a query regarding who is dancing. The pictures on this set of pages features only animal feet. The following two pages provides the answer with more of the assoiated sound, and the exclamation Happy Feet. The picture now features the entire animal. Illustrations are colorful collages. The book is rythmic and perfet for reading aloud.

Cute, different animals dance on their different sorts of feet. Would be good for storytime, lots of repetition and chance to do some movement.