Dance! Dance! Underpants! (Ballet Cat Series)

by Bob Shea, Bob Shea (Illustrator)

Overview

Everyone's favorite feline dance diva is paired with a reluctant partner in his hilarious second book in the popular Ballet Cat series for early readers!

Ballet Cat is getting her friend Butter Bear ready for her big ballet debut. "Leap, Butter Bear, leap!" Ballet Cat prompts. But Butter Bear would prefer to just point her toe. When Ballet Cat keeps pushing, Butter Bear gets hungry, then thirsty, then sleepy.... The bottom line is that Butter Bear would rather do almost anything to avoid making a big leap. Why? Because her bottom is covered in silly underpants! This second entry in the Ballet Cat series will have beginning readers rolling on the floor with laughter.

Don't miss the other Ballet Cat books:
Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret
Ballet Cat: What's Your Favorite Favorite?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484713792
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	02/02/2016
Series:	Ballet Cat , #2
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	459,623
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Bob Shea has written many popular books for children, including Chez Bob, Who Wet My Pants?, Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great and the Dinosaur vs. … series. He lives in Madison, Connecticut and he invites you to visit his website at bobshea.com.

Editorial Reviews

Another fun addition to the series that readers will love.”—School Library Journal

Praise for the Ballet Cat series:

Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret named a 2016 ALA notable book

“The humor and theme of friendship and sharing will have broad appeal beyond the beginning reader set. Move over Elephant and Piggie!” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

03/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—Ballet Cat wants all of her friends to love ballet as much as she does. In this second book in the series, Butter Bear seems to be a willing participant. That is, until Ballet Cat asks Butter Bear to do some superhigh leaps. Then suddenly Butter Bear comes up with a lot of excuses not to do the leaps at all. When the excuses reach a new high of ridiculousness, Ballet Cat finally clues in to what's really going on. When Butter Bear confesses her worry, it involves one final funny surprise. As in The Totally Secret Secret (Disney, 2015), Ballet Cat's love of dance blinds her to her friends' trepidations. Ballet Cat continues to insist on the leaps as Butter Bear throws obstacles in her way—cereal, ice pops, hibernation. This book has the quirky humor that readers have learned to expect from Shea. And he finds a clever way to combine this humor with the other qualities new readers need to succeed. Each page has solid, bright colored backgrounds. The backgrounds help the dialogue bubbles pop, and the bubbles themselves are colored so that readers can identify the speaker and follow the flow of the story. VERDICT Another fun addition to the series that readers will love.—Susan E. Murray, formerly at Glendale Public Library, AZ

School Library Journal

2015-11-03
Friendship has its high and low points in this dance adventure. Ballet Cat wants one thing and one thing only—that which she considers the highlight of ballet dancing—to leap high into the air. Her friend Butter Bear comes up with one excuse after another not to, all of which are countered by Ballet Cat. Finally Butter Bear realizes that even hibernation will not save her, and she whispers the real reason for her reluctant behavior: her patterned underwear will surely draw laughs from their watching friends. This scenario is designed to elicit chuckles from the beginning readers to whom the title is targeted; a two-page chant of "UNDERPANTS!" (times six) certainly adds to the fun. Ballet Cat is all pink, and Butter Bear is yellow, with each sketched in a cartoony style and outlined in heavy black lines against solid-colored backgrounds. The dialogue is spoken in colorful speech bubbles. This is the second adventure for Ballet Cat, and while she and B. Bear lack nuance in their relationship, their high spirits and lively repartee should keep fans of the series turning pages. A friend's single-mindedness overcomes myriad excuses, and a good time is had by all, beginning readers included. (Early reader. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews