Clorinda

Nice picture book about Clorinda the cow. I liked its positive messages about trying our best and following our dreams. Clorinda wanted to dance ballet and although ballet isn't the typical thing that cows do Clorinda wanted to do it and she tried. I could see myself using this book to teach a

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lesson about always trying our best to students K-3.

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Clorinda is a cow with an unusual passion for ballet. She practices, preservers, and at last has a chance to preform on-stage! Even though her big show doesn't go perfectly, the crowd still applauds. However, she decides to return back to the farm and teach the other animals ballet.

This is a fun

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book, written in a poetic style. The illustrations are extremely detailed and quite goofy.

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A great book about making your dreams come true and not forgetting to at least try. She is a cow ballerina who has all the right moves. This book has fantastic illustrations by Steven Kellogg. A book great for all ages.

This story turned out cuter than I expected it to be! :) Clorinda the Cow was one persistent ballerina, who ended up making it big with the home farm crowd.

This rhyming story told us about Clorinda the cow who dreamed of being a ballerina. She practiced and practiced until she decided to chase her dream and move to Manhatten. She experienced many failures and turn aways before she got her big break in the performance of Giselle. Things didn't turn out

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life she had hoped so she returned home to her farm where she began teaching dance to the other farm animals.

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A cow dancing ballet? Why yes, but after a failed career in New York, Clorinda returns to the farm to bring the magic of dance to the animals living there. Rhymes and lessons are like peanut butter and jelly and this book brings the two together in a feel good sandwich. We should all try, because

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we never really know our limits until we do. Failure is never final, says Wooden: this is true in basketball, ballet and life.

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This is the story of a Cow who wanted to Dance.

The good aspect of this book is that is one big poem. The rhymes tell a good story, and whether the child takes the Cow as verbatim or can substitute themselves in this picture, it is a good story to tell. You can do anything you set your heart out to

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do and when you fail you don't let the failure beat you but you get right back up and try again.

The Bad is that the personification of the cow is not consistent. Sometimes it's more convenient to be a cow than to be anything else. Sometimes Clorinda fights to be more than a cow...a cow who dances. But sometimes she is either not allowed to or does not want to as the case may be.

The Ugly. The print in this book is miniscule! Get your magnifying glasses out boys and girls and you will struggle reading the print. If you have an electron microscope hanging around you should do OK. It's a good book to read to a child, but not a book to have a child read to themselves.

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