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The All-American Jump and Jive Jig

by M. P. Hueston
32p. 978-1-40275-143-1.
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PreS-Gr 2 A zippy rhyming text takes readers from Maine to Hawaii as children celebrate their states by dancing, prancing, wiggling, twisting, shaking, stomping, and swinging. Massachusetts has the Boston Tea Party dance, "Shimmy like a boiling kettle, /whistle for some tea./Make a spout and tip it down/to pour a cup for me." Florida "has got a Latin beat./Miami Mambo is its name, /it'll make you move your feet." The watercolor and line images of jubilant boys and girls enhance the joyful mood of the well-paced text. Fans of Laurie Keller's "The Scrambled States of America" (Holt, 1998) will delight in this rollicking story, and readers will "jump and jive and jig" along with the children pictured."Melissa Smith, Green Valley Library, Henderson, NV" Copyright 2010 Media Source Inc.
"All across the country, there are dances children do. / Different kinds in different towns, and you can learn them, too!" Peppy rhymes introduce readers to the Brooklyn Boogie, the Miami Mambo, and other dances (instructions provided). The text cumulatively is wearying, but the premise itself is diverting, as are the illustrations of the moving-and-grooving kids.

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