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Cock-a-Doodle Dance!
It's all work, no play for the grouchy animals at this Texas farm. Then Rooster catches the jitterbug and things will never be the same!
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
May 22nd 2012
by Feiwel & Friends
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This book is so much fun. As fun as I find the text though, it's really the illustrations that do me in. On the third page, "The rooster wakes his farm at five to start their working day...," the picture of the cow staring at the reader cracks me up. The facial expressions throughout the book should engage and delight the listeners. The text is rhyming. And the rooster and son remind me a little of Looney Tune characters with the big, big eyes. There is one page which mentions "polka pies" landi...more
Using rhymes and catchy vocabulary, Cock-A-Doodle Dance is such a cute story about a sleepy, boring barnyard that a rooster brings to life when he catches a jitterbug. He spreads his dancing all over the barnyard until the chickens' eggs scramble and cows' milk curdles. At this time the barnyard animals get mad at the rooster for spreading this jitterbug around, which is when the rooster decides they need to clean up the barnyard and only dance at dusk. They find this such a balanced life now, u...more
When all work and no play leaves the farm animals exhausted and lackluster, Rooster decides to get them up on their feet to start dancing. They love all the fun, but no farm work gets done because they're having too much fun. Rooster decides to compromise with a balance of work and play. The end papers in this story written in rhymng lines contain descriptions of dances, and the illustrations are filled with large, comic images of the farm animals. I'm sure there's an audience for this one with...more
Kind of a weird hodge-podge of dance moves with an oddly told story. The farm animals work on a "gloomy, grouchy farm" with no time for enjoyment until rooster's un-introduced child (who then disappears into the story) puts on the radio and dance fever spreads across the farm. The farm animals soon dance themselves to exhaustion. They're so exhausted that they get angry at Rooster for starting the whole dance party, complaining that no work is getting done. Rooster calls for a "Cock-a-doodle Cle...more
Not only are the illustration stiff and cliched - they make all the farm animals look caucasian. The pigs have a peach skin tone, the chickes are all white, the cows are all pale. When children's books use animals instead of people, it's an oppurtunity to show characters that are not burdened with racial markers. This book fails to do that.
Also, I thought the story was weak.
Also, I thought the story was weak.
I feel like the rhythm wouldn't work for storytime, and some of the word choices were peculiar ("the cows can't nap with crusty calves," "you'll witness bovines bow and poultries' prancin' legs").
An uninspired group of farm animals discover the jitterbug and next thing you know, they can't stop dancing. Hilarious illustrations accompany this fun-loving story.
Isn't there a Dan Santat book coming out later this year that has a similar premise to this? The art was cute and all, but the story didn't make much sense.
My son said, "I don't like this one." So not sure why he didn't like it...maybe to long for him. But I liked the picture and thought it was fun.
Lots of old fashioned phrases to introduce to kids and the end papers have great information about a variety of dances.
Might be a really fun one to read allowed during storytimes. Tells all about the many dances and is NOISY! Fun!
Pretty blatant message, but the rhyme and connections to a variety of dances is interesting.
Language is different language. Nature of dance is well expressed
Cute rhymes, can't help but add a country twang when reading it :)
Kinda long, but could be fun for an older storytime crowd.
Grouchy farm animals catch dance fever.
Storytime!
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Apr 15, 2013
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Jackie Peters
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