Giraffes Can’t Dance

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The bestselling Giraffes Can’t Dance is now a board book!

Giraffes Can’t Dance is a touching tale of Gerald the giraffe, who wants nothing more than to dance. With crooked knees and thin legs, it’s harder for a giraffe than you would think. Gerald is after all able to dance to his own tune when he gets some encouraging words from an unlikely friend.

With light-footed rhymes and high-stepping illustrations, this tale is gentle inspiration for every child with dreams of greatness.

Gerald the giraffe doesn’t actually have delusions of grandeur. He just wants to dance. But his knees are crooked and his legs are thin, and all of the other animals mock him when he approaches the dance floor at the yearly Jungle Dance. “Hey, look at clumsy Gerald,” they sneer. “Oh, Gerald, you’re so weird.” Poor Gerald slinks away as the chimps cha-cha, rhinos rock ‘n’ roll, and warthogs waltz. But an encouraging word from an unlikely source shows this glum giraffe that people who are different “just need a different song,” and soon he is prancing and sashaying and boogying to moon music (with a cricket accompanist). In the vein of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Gerald’s fickle “friends” quickly make a decision he’s worthy of their attention again.

With this rhyming, poignant (in a cartoonish way) tale, Giles Andreae, creator of Rumble in the Jungle, and a lot of other picture books, shows insecure young readers that everyone will also be wonderful, even those that march to the beat of a different cricket. The rhymes are relatively awkward, but the bold, bright watercolors by Guy Parker-Rees will invite readers to kick up their heels and find their own internal harmony. (Ages 3 to 6) –Emilie Coulter

Author

Giles Andreae

Binding

Board book

Brand

Scholastic

CatalogNumberList

FPS-111330

Creator

Guy Parker-Rees, Illustrator

EAN

9780545392556

EANList

0659213182920, 9780545392556

Edition

Brdbk

ISBN

0545392551

ItemDimensions

700, hundredths-inches, 540, hundredths-inches, 64, hundredths-pounds, 70, hundredths-inches

Label

Cartwheel Books

Languages

English, Published, English, Original Language, English, Unknown

Manufacturer

Cartwheel Books

ManufacturerMaximumAge

60, months

ManufacturerMinimumAge

12, months

Model

2556

MPN

2556

NumberOfItems

1

NumberOfPages

32

PackageDimensions

68, hundredths-inches, 793, hundredths-inches, 68, hundredths-pounds, 636, hundredths-inches

PackageQuantity

1

PartNumber

2556

ProductGroup

Book

ProductTypeName

ABIS_BOOK

PublicationDate

2012-03-01

Publisher

Cartwheel Books

Studio

Cartwheel Books

UPC

659213182920

UPCList

659213182920

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