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Come along with me and dance! Dance like dolphins, antelopes, bees, and of course peacocks! Strut yourself through life showing off all your moves. Learning new moves is always fun too don’t you think? Isn’t it grand watching your children learning about different animals from all over the world while having fun? It’s one of the nicest things!
The Basic Details of Can you Dance Like a Peacock?
Title: Can you Dance Like a Peacock?
Author: Rekha S Rajan
Illustrator: Hannah Abbo
Publisher: Sourcebook Explore
Pages: 40
Intended Audience: 4-8 years old
Genre: Dance, Zoology, Birds, Animals, Picture Book
Reviewed for: Raincoast Books
Available formats: Hardcover, Kindle,
Received: Advanced Reader Copy, softcover
About the Author and Book
The Author
Dr. Rekha S. Rajan is a STEAM educator, musician, author and early childhood educator working out of Chicago. She resides with her husband, children, and various critters. Watching the native wildlife in her yard is one of the things she most enjoys doing. Did you know she is also a classically trained opera singer and plays the mridangam (a drum from South India), the piano, banjo, ukulele, djembe, bongos, recorder, and a lot of other instruments.
The Book
Animals, birds and insects move and dance naturally to communicate with one another. Some for food, some to mate, some to exercise. In this interactive book, children will learn about the animals around them and be invited to get up and dance like the animals!
Digging Deeper
LOVE! Just love the illustrations provided by Hannah Abbo. The bright colours, and the accurate depictions of the different animals is just wonderful. Can’t you just picture the beauty of a peacock as it struts across the forest floor?
The font is easy to read with good variation in size. Each of the 7 animals gets about four pages. Two for description and two for the dance.
At the close of this read you’ll find author notes telling more about the different animals, and giving suggestions on use in a classroom.
My Recommendation
Dance, Dance, Dance! Animals move in so many different ways, and we can choose to see it all as a dance. Be inspired to dance like the animals around us. How much fun would it be to have a group of kindergarten to grade three dancing around in your backyard or on a gym floor?
This would be an excellent book to add to an animal study in a homeschool co-op or in an elementary class room. An excellent way to get children up and moving as they think about the animals they just learned about. I even learned a new word! I thought antelope “pronk” when they jump. Another word for the same action is “Stot!”. Learning new words… EXCELLENT! 🙂
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