Barn Dance! (Reading Rainbow)

Great for teaching different cultural dances and understanding the south. Grades 4-7

This book is an example of fantasy because a scare crow can’t come alive and play a fiddle and animals don’t dance but it doesn’t make the story unbelievable or to far fetched.
Media: acrylic

This fantasy book has animals dancing, singing, and playing instruments with a little boy who stayed up late when he couldn't fall asleep. Of course animals can't really do these things, but for the sake of the main character, it was great for him since he couldn't sleep. The author reveals to us

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that the little boy is the main character through words and interactions with others. Media:Water color and charcoal

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This is an easy picture book that combines realistic aspects of country life with fantasy. A pleasure for both teachers and students, this book will keep children interested and amused.

Summary:In this book you come to use your imagination like no other by imagining a barn dance put on by the farm animals and the skinny farm boy.

Personal Effect: This was a book that I used to read a lot when I was little. I always found it so much fun just to imagine being able to have a barn

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dance with animals. I still love it to this day.

Extension Ideas: You could use this book as a different tool in a lesson on what animals live on farms.
This would be a great book to learn how to read and understand slang writing in childrens books. This one is full of it.

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Fictional book for children about what happens in the barn at night once everyone goes to bed. The little boy hears them wondering what is going on.

In an old farmhouse, bathed in the light of a full moon, a young boy creeps to his bedroom window and looks outside. Was that a voice he just heard, or the hooting of an owl? There it is again:

Come a little closer...
Come a little closer...
Listen to the night...
There's music in the air...

Beckoned by

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the voice, the boy sneaks downstairs, out the door, and walks toward the barn. As he gets closer he hears the sweet sound of a country fiddler and the rhythmic thumping of dancing feet. But who could possibly be having a barn dance in the middle of the night? (less)

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