ABC Dance!: An Animal Alphabet

by Sabrina Moyle, Eunice Moyle (Illustrator)

Overview

Dance through the alphabet from Aardvark to Zebra!

Hey! Is that your toe tapping? Well, go on! Strut your stuff!

Shake your boots with newts, lambada with llamas, and slide with sloths!

A lively romp through the alphabet with vibrant art and cheerfully rhyming text, ABC Dance! is a joy for children and grown-ups to read aloud together. Now get your dancing shoes on!
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523507467
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Pages:	26
Sales rank:	196,353
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	15 Months to 4 Years

About the Author

Eunice and Sabrina Moyle are the sister team behind Hello!Lucky, an award-winning design studio. Eunice, a gifted illustrator, and Sabrina, a creative entrepreneur, produced Hello!Lucky's first collection of letterpress printed greeting cards in 2003. Since then, Hello!Lucky has expanded to design bedding, ceramics, socks, stationery, custom photo albums, best-selling children’s books, and more. Eunice lives in France, and Sabrina lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"Readers can't help but smile and tap their toes through this one." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the Publisher

★ 2020-05-03
Animals dance their way through the ABCs.

This board book is not only a celebration of the alphabet, but also an exuberant adventure in rhyme and alliteration. Each letter is represented by a different animal with its own part in the dance. Sabrina Moyle’s text skillfully reads with its own playful cadence, carefully playing with word sounds without tying tongues. It’s this finesse that makes lines like “Quail quickly quickstep—they’re queens of the dance!” both fun to read aloud and appealing to little listening ears. The vocabulary is rich and unusual, with featured animals such as vicuña and xemes (a type of gull) and words like “pivot” and “winsomely.” Unlike so many alphabet books that announce each new page with a large, lonely letter, this one showcases the letter by subtly emphasizing its appearance in each word. The text fits in well with Eunice Moyle’s illustrations, appearing as an intentional part of the larger design instead of a typeface selected after the fact. The words “Rhinos ROCK OUT!” look almost as if they could be part of the set design for the energetically jamming rhinoceroses. Each page features bright backgrounds; animals are equally dazzling, with simply drawn yet emotive faces. Sure to be enjoyed by adults and children alike.

Readers can’t help but smile and tap their toes through this one. (Board book. 6 mos.-3)

Kirkus Reviews