- ISBN13: 9781563054426
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A die-cut cover opens to reveal chunky pages full of delightful farm animals at a barnyard dance in a board book that teaches young readers all about opposites…. More >>
#1 by Anonymous on May 14, 2010 - 10:40 am
This is another in a series of fun little books to delight. The animals have a square dance, replete with rhyme. The illustrations, as always, are realistic enough yet still imaginative. Like many things in life, even for young ones, sometimes its fascinating, and sometimes not. My daughter loves this book when Granny reads it to her, and sometimes she pages through it herself, telling whoever is about what the animals are doing. After a few months, however, she began to pass it by in favor of other choices. She prefers the Going To Bed Book, also by Boynton. Still, I think this is a cute rhyme, and many kids will like it. If they’ve ever been to a real square dance, this would probably be a welcome read.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on May 14, 2010 - 11:14 am
Try adopting the do-si-do sing-song voice of a square dance caller if you want to elicit some serious giggles. When I read this book to my 10 month old daughter, her older sisters dance around the room following my lead bowing, promenading, and scrambling with the little chicks (CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!). This is absolutely, positively our favorite book to read together. One caveat…make sure to read this book over and over to yourself before attempting to read it aloud to your children. The rhymes are so clever it took me a while before I could read it without getting too tickled to go on
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by LittleSproutBooks on May 14, 2010 - 1:37 pm
“Stomp your feet! Clap your hands! Everybody ready for a barnyard dance?” The bouncy rhythm of Sandra Boynton’s Barnyard Dance is nearly impossible to read without dancing right along with it! T discovered clapping this weekend, which is an amusement in itself, but it prompted me to fish out Barnyard Dance from our board book bin in the living room. B loved listening to this one as an infant too, I think especially because I couldn’t help bouncing him in my lap and acting out some of the movements with his little hands. The book is not so much a story as a narration of a silly square dance caller in a barnyard full of animals where pigs twirl, ducks strut, and everybody promenades!
All the action in Barnyard Dance lends itself to great physical development for your little one! Infants will love the rhythm, and by six months or so will likely bounce along on their own. “Helping” them with the movements as I did with T’s hands (and B’s before him) may help children learn about their muscle movements and the control of their limbs. Toddlers and preschoolers can practice both large muscle coordination and language processing if you read the book as directions for them to follow and complete the dance for you.
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Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Granny Nanny on May 14, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Love the board pages, the rhyming, we have read this book over and over! From birth and going on age four with the addition of a baby sister.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by J. Blackstone on May 14, 2010 - 3:38 pm
Nice size for toddlers and very sturdy.
Good book to introduce kids to farm animals.
Rating: 5 / 5