My Mama Had A Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks) Review
This is the oh so sweet story of a mother and her daughter and all the seasons during the year that inspire them to feel the wind and the sun and the chill in the air as they frolic and dance together. - As an adult, the daughter becomes a dancer and as she laces up her ballet slippers she imagines her mother still saying:
"Bless the world it feels like a tip-tapping song-singing finger-snapping kind of day"
This book helps young children understanding the feelings associated with dancing, that dancing is an expression of feelings and that feelings can be translated into dance. The illustrations in this book are equally as expressive as the text, which is beautifully crafted.
A lovely addition to any library, this book would make a wonderful gift.
DeeDee Fox, author and illustrator, The Ruby Red Slippers
My Mama Had A Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks) Feature
- ISBN13: 9780531071427
- Condition: New
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My Mama Had A Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks) Overview
"In spring, summer, fall and winter, a mother leads her young daughter in dancing a celebratory ballet, a hymn to the season. When the girl is older, she is a ballerina and remembers that her mother gave her a dancing heart.... [An] exuberant celebration of dance." - School Library Journal, starred review
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Customer Reviews
My Mama Had A Dancing Heart - Jennifer Dunagan - Georgia, USA
This book makes me want to dance. It reminds me what it was like to dance with my mama when I was young. It makes you feel pretty. Makes you want to enjoy life and the beauty that it offers. Ms. Gray shows you the closeness of a mother and daughter's love. I especially love the rhymes and very descriptive adjectives that she uses to place you in the room with the characters. The mother in this story, instills the love of dancing into her daughter from a young age. She also teaches her to love nature and respect and dance to the beauty of the seasons. A must read.
Jennifer Dunagan,author of Auntie Jennie's Puppy:
The Adventures of Santana and Santana's
Harrowing Halloween
Here is what Marian has to say about this book: - Megan Bernard - Patterson, CA, USA
Do you dance with your mother? My Mama Had a Dancing Heart, by Libba Moore Gray is about a girl that dance with her mom they go to the beach run into the water, they read rain poem together then they go to the snow and make snowmen. By moving their arm up and down .then they drink hot cocoa with marshmallows.
I like the part when they go to the beach and they start making balloons and flying kites in the wind.
I give it a 10 out of 10 because she's dancing with her mom just like I am visualizing about the book. This remind me of when I dance with my mom just like in the story.
Gorgeous words and illustrations - Nonfiction - Boston
My two year old son asks me to read this book several times a day. It is such a wonderful celebration of seasons and the loving bond between parent and child. It is pure poetry. The illustrations are beautiful and unique.
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