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Doing the Animal Bop
Here comes a festival of brightly hued animals, and they all love to dance and sing! Better yet, a music CD is enclosed with this book, so kids can dance and sing along with the animals. The big ostrich dances with feathers that bounce . . . the silly snake slithers with a hiss and a wriggle . . . the monkeys bop with a jump and a jiggle . . . and even the elephant dances with big stomping feet. This funny picture book with its music compact disc is for kids who love to dance—and if there are any boys and girls out there who don't like to dance, this book will change their minds. They can jump and jiggle, jive and wriggle. Doing the Animal Bop is certain to make them laugh and giggle. Big, extra bright illustrations on every page come with a humorous, rhyming text, and the enclosed CD provides the music!
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Jan Ormerod
153 books20 followersJan Ormerod grew up in the small towns of Western Australia, with three older sisters, and as a child she drew constantly and compulsively. She went to art school and studied drawing, painting and sculpture. After completing her degree, Jan become an Associate of the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Design in Education, taught in secondary schools on enrichment programmes, and lectured in teacher’s college and art schools. Jan's first picture book, "Sunshine", won the Mother Goose Award in 1982 and was highly commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her recent titles include "Ben Goes Swimming", "Emily Dances", "Who’s Who on Our Street?", " A Twist in the Tail" and "Ponko and the South Pole".
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July 20, 2019
Doing the animal bop is an interactive picture book for pre-school and young children. It is a riotous animal romp, which nearly every young child will love to join in with.
“If you like to dance
and you sometimes sing,
why don’t
you do the
animal thing?”
Each double page spread has a brightly coloured picture, depicting simplified, stylised, cartoonish animals, each moving in their own characteristic way. The first is a nighttime scene with silhouettes of animals suggested in the border of jungle, and “me” a little white mouse, posing on a rock, about to sing - or dance - in the moonlight. Turning over, the double page spread shows a penguin in three stages. One is standing ready, the next in the middle having started to dance, and the third a close-up, with the penguin in full dance mode:
“Put your
heels together
and waddle along.
Go Craak Craak Craak -
it’s the
penguin song!”
The words are printed in a large, slightly irregular font, in the broken lines shown. Important words are in bold, so that the child can be shown how to identify them. Another page turn gives us:
“High stepping knees
and feathers that bounce -
flim-flam
flutter
to the ostrich flounce”
Each animal spread also features a little white mouse, almost hidden from view but secretly watching, or trying to join in the action. We have a wriggling, hissing, snake, and a monkey:
“Jive and jiggle -
just don’t stop!
Jump and wiggle
to the monkey bop.”
Here there are four monkeys pictured in various attitudes, dancing around. Somehow I think this may be the favourite action page. But we carry on with a donkey, an elephant, a lizard, a chicken, a duck, a rhino, and a cow with a great big MOOOO, before we are back to another nighttime picture, with the animals all now silhouetted from behind, romping and dancing their way home.
The book is lively, funny and attractive. It’s a great one for sharing, and encouraging very young children to walk and talk like the animals, thus teaching them their individual movement and sounds.
The text is by the prolific children’s author, Jan Ormerod. She was born in Australia, but now spends her time between Australia, England, and the USA. She has written over 60 picture books, won many honours and awards, and is published in 21 countries.
The illustrations for Doing the animal bop are by the Scottish illustrator Lindsey Gardiner. Here she works in crayon and gouache, with a few cut-outs to add texture. The animals she draws are bright, smiley, and very engaging. The two have worked together to produce a series of picture books, designed to get children to interact and play, to move, dance, chant and sing. They are:
Doing the animal bop
Join the zoo hullabaloo!
Whoosh around the mulberry bush
The wheels on the bus
If you’re happy and you know it!
Over in the clover
They are all worth a look, but I think this one will be the favourite, with a likely request to hear it over and over again. After all, who would not enjoy waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling, jumping and wiggling like a monkey?
“If you like to dance
and you sometimes sing,
why don’t
you do the
animal thing?”
Each double page spread has a brightly coloured picture, depicting simplified, stylised, cartoonish animals, each moving in their own characteristic way. The first is a nighttime scene with silhouettes of animals suggested in the border of jungle, and “me” a little white mouse, posing on a rock, about to sing - or dance - in the moonlight. Turning over, the double page spread shows a penguin in three stages. One is standing ready, the next in the middle having started to dance, and the third a close-up, with the penguin in full dance mode:
“Put your
heels together
and waddle along.
Go Craak Craak Craak -
it’s the
penguin song!”
The words are printed in a large, slightly irregular font, in the broken lines shown. Important words are in bold, so that the child can be shown how to identify them. Another page turn gives us:
“High stepping knees
and feathers that bounce -
flim-flam
flutter
to the ostrich flounce”
Each animal spread also features a little white mouse, almost hidden from view but secretly watching, or trying to join in the action. We have a wriggling, hissing, snake, and a monkey:
“Jive and jiggle -
just don’t stop!
Jump and wiggle
to the monkey bop.”
Here there are four monkeys pictured in various attitudes, dancing around. Somehow I think this may be the favourite action page. But we carry on with a donkey, an elephant, a lizard, a chicken, a duck, a rhino, and a cow with a great big MOOOO, before we are back to another nighttime picture, with the animals all now silhouetted from behind, romping and dancing their way home.
The book is lively, funny and attractive. It’s a great one for sharing, and encouraging very young children to walk and talk like the animals, thus teaching them their individual movement and sounds.
The text is by the prolific children’s author, Jan Ormerod. She was born in Australia, but now spends her time between Australia, England, and the USA. She has written over 60 picture books, won many honours and awards, and is published in 21 countries.
The illustrations for Doing the animal bop are by the Scottish illustrator Lindsey Gardiner. Here she works in crayon and gouache, with a few cut-outs to add texture. The animals she draws are bright, smiley, and very engaging. The two have worked together to produce a series of picture books, designed to get children to interact and play, to move, dance, chant and sing. They are:
Doing the animal bop
Join the zoo hullabaloo!
Whoosh around the mulberry bush
The wheels on the bus
If you’re happy and you know it!
Over in the clover
They are all worth a look, but I think this one will be the favourite, with a likely request to hear it over and over again. After all, who would not enjoy waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling, jumping and wiggling like a monkey?
October 26, 2017
A fun and energetic story that's perfect for 3-7's. I'm all for books that encourage child involvement. It's impossible for them to get involved and not have a giggle. The whole class can join in with this and it can open up a discussion about which 'moves' they think other animals could contribute to the animal bop and talk about things like alliteration and onomatopoeia.
February 20, 2016
This story is simply an explosion of rhythm, colour and a clash of farm and zoo animals, great for all 3-7 year olds and adults alike. The book takes us on a musical journey with a variety of animals including; monkeys, ostriches, snakes, cows, chickens and many, many more. It is a great book to get children involved through song and dance. The continuous rhyming throughout the book creates great momentum and adds to the fun factor. It is a great introduction to rhyming language for Years 1 and 2. The bright and bold illustrations throughout the book draw in children and work to capture their imagination. The book allows children to identify familiar and unfamiliar animal movements or sounds. Within a classroom this story would be great to read out loud and have children contribute ideas of how they could move in both literacy and music. Additionally, it can be used to model poetry. I enjoyed this book and found myself reading through the book on numerous occasions.
I would definitely recommend it.
I would definitely recommend it.
April 16, 2022
Lindsay Gardiner provides vibrant animal illustrations to accompany Jan Ormerod's inter-active rhyming text as a variety of animals all show how they do the bop; it does make me wonder did I bop like this when I was a young bopper!!
There are penguins who 'waddle along', ostriches who do the 'ostrich flounce', snakes who 'hissssss and wriggle', donkeys who kick those legs them go hee-haw, hee-haw', elephants who stamp their feet to the elephant beat, lizards, chickens, ducks and even rhinoceroses who do the 'rhino romp'. But my favourites are the monkeys who 'jive and jiggle, just don't stop, jump and wiggle to the monkey bop'. I wonder if it was because I was sometimes a little monkey myself? Although I never admitted it at the time but can do so now in older age!
It's a great fun book to read aloud and even to act out the movements ... perhaps to the sound of someone like Chuck Berry (my favourite) who was 'really bopping in Boston, Pittsburgh PA, even St Louis and down in 'Frisco Bay ...'!!
There are penguins who 'waddle along', ostriches who do the 'ostrich flounce', snakes who 'hissssss and wriggle', donkeys who kick those legs them go hee-haw, hee-haw', elephants who stamp their feet to the elephant beat, lizards, chickens, ducks and even rhinoceroses who do the 'rhino romp'. But my favourites are the monkeys who 'jive and jiggle, just don't stop, jump and wiggle to the monkey bop'. I wonder if it was because I was sometimes a little monkey myself? Although I never admitted it at the time but can do so now in older age!
It's a great fun book to read aloud and even to act out the movements ... perhaps to the sound of someone like Chuck Berry (my favourite) who was 'really bopping in Boston, Pittsburgh PA, even St Louis and down in 'Frisco Bay ...'!!
November 19, 2013
This is a great book that can be sung to the children. I read this book twice to the children so that they can join in the singing the second time. There were new words in the book like jive, but the children really enjoyed this book and joined in with my singing. A great book for developing expressive arts skills and children were singing together with their friends, watching each other. They were doing this co-operative lay, developing their personal, social and emotional skills. A great book!!!
July 31, 2018
This is a brilliantly fun and engaging story for young children!
The reader can meet lots of animals through the book; each new animal brings a new action or sound to the 'animal bop' created through the story.
This is a great story to get children learning new meanings of words through actions and help them to interact more so with the story! Whilst doing so, children can grasp some typical characteristics of different animals too! For instance, "Kick those legs like the donkeys do, Then go hee-haw hee-haw, too!", the rhyming language throughout the story adds a more musical beat for the 'animal bop'!
The reader can meet lots of animals through the book; each new animal brings a new action or sound to the 'animal bop' created through the story.
This is a great story to get children learning new meanings of words through actions and help them to interact more so with the story! Whilst doing so, children can grasp some typical characteristics of different animals too! For instance, "Kick those legs like the donkeys do, Then go hee-haw hee-haw, too!", the rhyming language throughout the story adds a more musical beat for the 'animal bop'!
July 12, 2020
- Very interactive book that is good at getting children engaged with the story.
- Talks about the different characteristics of animals - could link in with the classification of animals into different groups.
- Children could make up their own movement that is individual to them and identifies them as their own character.
- Talks about the different characteristics of animals - could link in with the classification of animals into different groups.
- Children could make up their own movement that is individual to them and identifies them as their own character.
September 24, 2023
Fant denne skatten i en #byttebod. Elsker rim og rytme i engelske barnebøker. Denne har en del nonsensord, som kan være god som hjelper i veiledet lesing. Det er en del dyr og dyrerim som kan være gøy for å leke med språket, men inke alt for god til begrepsopplæring ellers, men der finnes det jo massevis av andre lignende bøker.
June 11, 2019
great book t to do the action to
August 28, 2020
Great with engaging reluctant readers.
April 10, 2021
This is absolutely one of our favourites. It's a great way to get moving and can even be incorporated in PE lessons for different ways to move.
October 18, 2021
Great book for phase one phonics and to use with music and movement.
July 6, 2013
This is an excellent book for the 4-7 year age range. There are many strands in this book that make it a must have for all classrooms. It is a lively and entertaining read where children can have a dance with all the animals. It has an upbeat pace and uses rhyming to give a vivid description of all the animals having a ‘bop’. It would make an excellent book to read to the class. The children can have fun looking at all the vibrant and colourful illustrations while learning the different animal names.
It can be used in a PE lesson in which the children can enjoy entertaining animal dance moves with all the different animals as it gives clear instructions as to how to copy the animals: “wave one arm and stomp your feet, trudge along to the elephant beat.” It can also be used in a music lesson where children can use different instruments to set their own tempo to the book or even by playing a different instrument for each different animal.
I think overall this is a fantastic book either to be used in the foundation years as an introductory book to make children enjoy reading as it has bold and colourful illustrations on each page, or even later on in Year 1 and 2 for curriculum support.
It can be used in a PE lesson in which the children can enjoy entertaining animal dance moves with all the different animals as it gives clear instructions as to how to copy the animals: “wave one arm and stomp your feet, trudge along to the elephant beat.” It can also be used in a music lesson where children can use different instruments to set their own tempo to the book or even by playing a different instrument for each different animal.
I think overall this is a fantastic book either to be used in the foundation years as an introductory book to make children enjoy reading as it has bold and colourful illustrations on each page, or even later on in Year 1 and 2 for curriculum support.
November 23, 2016
1. Awards the book has received (if any): No awards
2. Appropriate grade level(s): Pre-K - K
3. Original 3-line summary
This book introduces a variety of animals to the reader as well as the sounds and movements these animals make. The song encourages children to join in and make the sounds and movements with the singer. By the end of the song all of the animals that were introduced dance off into the night.
4. Original 3-line review
This is a great interactive, musical book for children. The lively pictures and opportunity to be noisy and silly help to frame reading as something fun to children rather than something that is annoying or boring. I also love that it introduces children to such a variety of animals that they may not have really focused on before.
5. 2-3 possible in-class uses
This book would be a great complement to lessons that cover animal sounds, or any animal themed unit. It could also be used as a brain break exercise or to get students to comfortable making certain letter sounds.
2. Appropriate grade level(s): Pre-K - K
3. Original 3-line summary
This book introduces a variety of animals to the reader as well as the sounds and movements these animals make. The song encourages children to join in and make the sounds and movements with the singer. By the end of the song all of the animals that were introduced dance off into the night.
4. Original 3-line review
This is a great interactive, musical book for children. The lively pictures and opportunity to be noisy and silly help to frame reading as something fun to children rather than something that is annoying or boring. I also love that it introduces children to such a variety of animals that they may not have really focused on before.
5. 2-3 possible in-class uses
This book would be a great complement to lessons that cover animal sounds, or any animal themed unit. It could also be used as a brain break exercise or to get students to comfortable making certain letter sounds.
May 3, 2012
This book is full of fun and ideal for young children and babies. it is about various animals and the way they move around and make nosies. and will make any child giggle and want to get up and move around. It gets children moving around, while they explore their acting skills and the characteristics of lots of different animals. It is a perfect book to use cross -curricular in literacy. music and P.E. There is also lots of potential to get children active in P.E. or explore with instruments in music.
July 16, 2014
Beautifully illustrations combined with rhyming, rhythmic text make this a fun story time book. The included CD with it's great background music and sounds made this an audience favorite. We were waddling like a penguin, doing the ostrich flounce, stomping and waving our "trunks" to the elephant beat. This is one great fun read-aloud.
March 31, 2012
This book has bright color. I use this book with the CD to get the wiggles out. Also the kids can
imitated the animal sounds.
Extencion:
Have the kids pretent they are the animals and they can dance like them.
They can make masks of the differents animals and play roll.
imitated the animal sounds.
Extencion:
Have the kids pretent they are the animals and they can dance like them.
They can make masks of the differents animals and play roll.
March 4, 2012
Fun pictures, fun rhymes, fun noises, fun movements, FUN BOOK! Join in as a waddling penguin, a flouncing ostrich, and make like a snake, monkey, donkey, elephant, lizard, chicken, duck, rhino and cow! You'll all have a lovely time! This book is simply joyous.
Read in Baby Rhymetime 10/Jul/12.
Read in Baby Rhymetime 10/Jul/12.
June 8, 2016
Animals dancing everywhere doing the animal bop!
This was such a great book! Victoria was squealing along in delight. A brilliant book for children who are starting to learn all the different animals and sounds they make.
V @ 6 months old.
This was such a great book! Victoria was squealing along in delight. A brilliant book for children who are starting to learn all the different animals and sounds they make.
V @ 6 months old.
March 5, 2009
I love that this comes with a music CD with the song and sound effects on it. I plan on doing the Animal Bop in the near future.
March 6, 2010
LOVED this book! Darling book that makes my daughter jump and dance around the room while we read it.
November 18, 2013
read to my daughter
September 1, 2015
I think I'll have to re-ILL this one at the end of the summer for when we have our general movement themed storytime.
August 29, 2015
RFU5'S #2 (28/08/2015)
A fun story
A fun story
November 1, 2015
A very good and interactive picture book - 4*
May 23, 2016
Animal identification and rhymes are HUGE for the kids right now. My daughter (nearly 2) and my son (3.5) both dug this book.
July 7, 2013
wild animals, farm animals, dancing, fun language, interactive
February 7, 2016
186 - 2016
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