Description
Publisher: | Scholastic Asia |
Series: | Guided Reading |
Published: | |
Format: | Paperback |
Author: | Leo and Diane Dillon |
Illustrated by: | |
Guide Reading Level(US): | J |
Reading Recovery Level: | 17-18 |
Lexile: | AD360L |
Text type: | Fiction/Informational Text |
ISBN: |
9780439560665 |
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With bold paintings and a simple, rhyming text, Caldecott Medalists Leo & Diane Dillon bring young readers a rap a tap tap celebration of dance that will have readers clapping and tapping along. "There once was a man who danced in the street / He brought pleasure and joy to the people he'd greet / He didn't just dance, he made art with his feet / Rap a tap tap--think of that!" This simple book for young children has the added bonus of describing the life of a ground-breaking African-American tap dancer. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1920s-30s. People said he "talked with his feet," and in the Dillons' graceful paintings of old New York, he dances from page to page to the tune of a toe-tapping rhyme. Rap a tap tap--think of that! |