Giraffes Can't Dance
by Giles Andreae
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Author: Giles AndreaeIllustrator: Guy Parker-Rees
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN: 0439287197
Number of pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Orchard
Book Reviews of Giraffes Can't Dance
Book Review: Giraffes can't dance
Summary: 5 Stars
This is such a wonderfull book. A great story with absolutley beautifull pictures!! I bought it for a baby shower gift and the mom was thrilled with it!
Summary of Giraffes Can't Dance
Gerald is a giraffe who simply can?t dance. Try as he may, his long, spindly legs buckle whenever he starts to boogie. Every year he dreads going to the Great jungle Dance, until one night he finds his own special music.Gerald the giraffe doesn't really have delusions of grandeur. He just wants to dance. But his knees are crooked and his legs are thin, and all the other animals mock him when he approaches the dance floor at the annual Jungle Dance. "Hey, look at clumsy Gerald," they sneer. "Oh, Gerald, you're so weird." Poor Gerald slinks away as the chimps cha-cha, rhinos rock 'n' roll, and warthogs waltz. But an encouraging word from an unlikely source shows this glum giraffe that those who are different "just need a different song," and soon he is prancing and sashaying and boogying to moon music (with a cricket accompanist). In the vein of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gerald's fickle "friends" quickly decide he's worthy of their attention again.
With this rhyming, poignant (in a cartoonish way) tale, Giles Andreae, author of Rumble in the Jungle, and numerous other picture books, shows insecure young readers that everyone can be wonderful, even those that march to the beat of a different cricket. The rhymes are somewhat awkward, but the bold, bright watercolors by Guy Parker-Rees will invite readers to kick up their heels and find their own internal harmony. (Ages 3 to 6) --Emilie Coulter
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