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This Is Tap! Savion Glover Finds His Funk

ISBN-10: 0823460258
ISBN-13: 9780823460250
Author: Castrovilla, Selene
Illustrated by: Freeman, Laura
Interest Level: P-3
Publisher: Candlewick

Publication Date: January 2025

Copyright: 2023

Page Count: 40

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Grades P-3

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BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Performing Arts / Dance

JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American

Description
A bouncing picture book biography of the tap dancer behind the Happy Feet penguin, illustrated by the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Winner of Hidden Figures . This is a story about tap dancing, a distinctly American art form that blended English-Scottish-Irish clog dancing with African tribal dancing. And it's about a boy, Savion Glover--who was born to feel the music--to dance and perform and invent. And to delight and awe audiences with the movements of his body. Soul meets sole. From that day on, Savion danced. All the time. Not practicin'. Livin. 'Tippity, tippity, tappity, tappity, TROMP, TROMP, TROMP! Follow Savion's journey as beats crescendos into a love of dancing as self-expression. This picture book biography creates music with words and story, and dance with color and composition. Child and parent can read the rhymes and onomatopoeia together while enjoying the bold artwork. Savion Glover revitalized modern tap dancing with his jazz and hip-hop influenced "free-form hard core" style. From his appearances on Sesame St
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