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Giraffes Can't Dance
Giraffes Can't Dance (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Hugh Laurie
- Publisher
- Hachette Children's Group
- Publish Date
- 3 October 2019
- Run Time
- 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Gerald the giraffe longs to go to the great Jungle Dance, but how can he join in when he doesn't know how to tango or two-step? Everyone knows that giraffes can't dance ... or can they?
With lots of music to boogie along to, this fun-filled audio book is guaranteed to get little ones dancing!
(P)2002 The Watts Publishing Group Limited
Critics Review
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An inspiration.
Church Times
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A wonderful, light-hearted story.
Bournemouth Daily Echo
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A hit with young children since it was first published 10 years ago
Daily Express
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A can-do story with lively pictures and an immensely pleasing text.
Times Educational Supplement
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Brilliant use of colour, a continual sense of movement and high good humour all help to make this picture book richly enjoyable.
Carousel
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A gloriously colourful and lively book with a strong message.
Sunderland Echo
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Superb...a wonderfully funny book.
The Independent
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Extraordinary and exuberant...a terrific tale and a positive message about celebrating difference.
Bournemouth Echo
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This rhyming poem is excellent.
The Bookseller
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Managed to capture the hearts of countless children. A modern classic.
Baby & Me
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A fantastically funny and wonderfully colourful romp
The Daily Telegraph
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A lovely rhyming picture book about understanding differences
motherandbaby.co.uk
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Lovely
Lytham St Annes Express
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This is a lovely story that incorporates several dance forms including waltz, tango, Scottish reel amd rock n roll. I have also used the story to introduce infant classes to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and had them playing along with it
SAME Magazine
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Giraffes Can't Dance ... has been a bestseller for more than 15 years - and for good reason ... There's a very powerful message in there about daring to be different, and accepting others too
Irish Daily Mail
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This rhyming story will delight young children and get them popping along with the rhythm
Evening Standard
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Details
- Author
- Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees
- Narrator
- Hugh Laurie
- Duration
- 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781408360880
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Children's Group
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem, Early years: verse, rhymes and wordplay, Picture storybooks
Synopsis
Dance along with Gerald in this audio edition of the bestselling picture book classic, read by Hugh Laurie. Gerald the giraffe longs to go to the great Jungle Dance, but how can he join in when he doesn't know how to tango or two-step? Everyone knows that giraffes can't dance ... or can they?With lots of music to boogie along to, this fun-filled audio book is guaranteed to get little ones dancing!(P)2002 The Watts Publishing Group Limited
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