My Mama Had A Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks)

by Libba Gray

Other authorsLibba Moore Gray (Author), Raul Colon (Illustrator), Raul Colon (Illustrator)

Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

792.8

Genres

Children's Books

Collection

Picture Books

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (1999), Edition: Illustrated, 32 pages

Description

A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bookgals

This book would be good for 1st and 2nd graders. In this book, a mother and daughter embrace each season through the power of dance. The time they spend together is truely rewarding in the end is an inspiration to the young ballerina while she is dancing on stage. The words through the book are fun

and rhythmic and the vibrant watercolor illustraions convey a sense of calming and bring the whole story to life.

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LibraryThing member awiltenburg

I enjoyed the adventuresome trip with these ladies through life's simple and special bonding times. I loved the vivid verbs and word play int he text as well as the illustrations.

LibraryThing member edefra1

My Mama Had a Dancing Heart was a very enlightening book. It tells the story of a girl and her mother and how the mother served as her role model. The main message in this book is tradition and remembrance. The reasons why I liked this book was the pictures and the plot. The pictures were very dark

and the illustrator did a great job mixing the colors and creating a texture. For example, the dresses looked like they were flowing in the wind. I also liked the plot because their dancing was a way to celebrate each season. Also their dance was a bond between mother and daughter and that bond was so special to each of them. Overall I liked this book but it was not one of my favorites.

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LibraryThing member DWMSLibrarian

This heartwarming story is told using internal rhyme that occasionally pops up in a picture book format. It is about the bond between mother and daughter, and how that bond helps to shape the daughter as she grows up. Through the beautifully illustrated color pictures, we see the closeness between

them as they dance and live out the seasons together, and we get to see the daughter growing up until at the last she becomes a ballerina, due to her mother’s influence. We get to view special moments between them, as the daughter remembers wax-paper pressing leaves and drinking spiced hot tea during winter. The illustrations help to create a warm, intimate ambiance throughout the book and tell the story of a carefree, joyous mother and her loving daughter. Girls will love this book. Ages 2 – 8.

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LibraryThing member lmalak1

I didn't really like this book. I didn't quite understand what the point of the book was. One specific reason why I didn't like the book was because there was no real character development. I felt like the main girl in the story was simply retelling her childhood, but there is no connection to the

reader as to why this retelling is important.
Another reason I disliked this book was because I just couldn't pick out the main idea. The book is about a girl and her mother dancing, but that seemed to be as deep as it went. Overall, not my favorite book by a long shot.

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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Why didn't I love this beautiful book? And why are almost all of the reviews by teachers or wannabe teachers? And what would children think of it? I don't know... I'd like some of my GR friends who read picture-books to read & review this....

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