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Title: Earthdance by Joanne Ryder, Norman Gorbaty ISBN: 0-8050-6231-9 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful! And my 20 students agree!
Comment: I picked this story up in the Spring to read to my first grade class around Earth Day. First I read it to them with the illustrations, and then we read it a second time, with the children closing their eyes and visualizing. They loved this and produced the most amazing drawings, with writing of how they'd dance upon the Earth. I recommend this book highly to parents or teachers for a variety of reasons: It is beautiful, it inspires imagination, and it reflects love for the Earth.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly moving book!
Comment: Not knowing the subject of this book, I sat down to read "Earth Dance" out loud to my young daughter (not because she can't read, but because we enjoy reading to each other). I began as I usually begin a book -- finding the passion in the words and the mood of the illustrations as I read out loud. I was immediately enchanted by the beauty of the words in this poem, and so moved by the message that, to my surprise, tears began to well in my eyes! I was reading the line "You are twirling so gracefully, carefully, not even the sand moves as you spin..". Surprised by my reaction, I looked through my own teary eyes into (surprise again!)the teary eyes of my ten-year-old daughter. She was as deeply affected as I! That truly is the hallmark of a good poet and artist, who can touch your heart and mind so completely with words.
Hours later, still deeply affected by the story, illustrations, and our reaction to them, I realized that I had just experienced a gentle magic moment, no small thing for an adult who has read a hundred children's books.
I cannot say enough about how good this book is --for children and the adults who read to them.
To the mothers of future ecologists, future artists, future parents...to all the readers of Joanne Ryder's Earth Dance: dance slowly, spin gently, and carry this book home to share with all the children of our precious Earth.
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Title: Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter from Home by Schim Schimmel ISBN: 1559712252 Publisher: NorthWord Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Family of Earth by Schim Schimmel ISBN: 1559717904 Publisher: NorthWord Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Mama Had a Dancing Heart (Orchard Paperbacks) by Libba Moore Gray, Raul Colon ISBN: 0531071421 Publisher: Orchard Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Children of the Earth... Remember by Schim Schimmel ISBN: 1559716401 Publisher: NorthWord Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Old Man & His Door by Gary Soto, Joe Cepeda ISBN: 0698116542 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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