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I Am a Dancer

I Am a Dancer


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About the Book

Poet Pat Lowery Collins shows children that their everyday motions—catching a ball, reaching up to a shelf, or shuffling through the rain—can contain all of the elements of a dance. Mark Graham's lovely oil paintings give the reader a new appreciation of the beauty of natural movements.

About the Author :
Pat Lowery Collins is a poet, painter, and the author of many books for children and young adults including the Reading Rainbow selection, I Am An Artist, and the recent sequel, I Am a Dancer. Her newest historical novels are Hidden Voices, The Orphan Musicians of Venice and Daughter of Winter, both published by Candlewick Press. The latter is a Must Read Finalist for the Mass Book Award. Her young adult novel in free verse, The Fattening Hut, won the Boston Author's Club 2004 Julia Ward Howe Award and was a Book Sense Pick and ALA Amelia Bloomer choice. A picture book, The Deer Watch, is also forthcoming from Candlewick. She teaches in Lesley University's MFA program in creative writing and lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her Website is www.patlowerycollins.com and she can be reached to schedule a Skype visit at patlc@comcast.net.

Review :
"'I am a dancer each morning / as I shimmy out of bed. . .' This paean to movement uses spare, sophisticated, lyrical text to describe a child's vision: 'Sometimes I am a dancer / to a silent throb / that makes me / spin and sway / and try to fly.' Painterly illustrations in muted hues display the various expressions of movement." --The Horn Book Guide "'I am a dancer when the tune in my head makes me reach and stretch and hop or when notes from nowhere shiver through me and shake me around.' In spare, upbeat, accessible poetry, a speaker describes how every day brings opportunities to move in tune to the world's rhythms - from the quick beat of sports action to the 'steady drip-blip of rain.' Bold acrylic paintings illustrate the poem, which is printed in just a few lines on each page. The thick paint and sometimes muted palette results in some muddied images, particularly of human figures, but the atmospheric nature scenes rendered in energetic brushwork that matches the celebratory rhythms in the words are wonderfully successful. It's the graceful lines about finding joy everywhere and expressing that joy through art and movement that make this noteworthy, and adults will enjoy sharing the book's life-affirming, inclusive message: 'Whenever the beat of the world's heart moves into your fingers and toes . . . you are a dancer too.'" --Booklist "Similar in style to the author's I Am an Artist (Millbrook, 1992), this book shows girls and boys in various movements that can be defined as dance steps. In Collins's free-verse poem, they 'shimmy out of bed, ' splash in puddles to the 'steady drip-blip of rain, ' fly a kite, and play ball. Graham's beautiful oil paintings are filled with solidly built children on the move, while some of the backgrounds are almost ethereal. Even the brushstrokes convey action. This book is a lovely merging of art and poetry and gives a delightful sense of joyful motion. Paired with Rick Walton's How Can You Dance? (Putnam, 2001), it would make a great storytime selection." --School Library Journal


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  • ISBN-13: 9780761340201
  • Publisher: The Millbrook Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: The Millbrook Press Inc
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0761340203
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 32


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