Dance!

HarperCollins (August 1, 2001)
Reading age : 6 - 8 years

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Dance!

I took a ballet class in college to improve my football. Years later, I returned to dance. This book is about how one dance performance comes together, from choreography to opening night. I went to Alvin Ailey and Mark Morris shows, and a modern dance class at Berkeley. Watching the dancers in that class — stretching, sweating, drinking water, practicing each move until they got it right — gave me such appreciation for the athleticism and work that goes into creating dance.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK

“[A] thoroughly contemporary look at a modern dance company at work.”
 — The New York Times

★  “Few illustrators, save perhaps James Stevenson, can coax quite so much expression and animation from a few dashes of fine brushwork and a smear or two of watercolor fill.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review  

“Cooper’s illuminating depiction of the many steps leading up to the grand event are deserving of enthusiastic applause.” 
— Publishers Weekly