Recently, a friend, a fellow-teacher who has taken up dancing classes since she retired told me that as well as the ballet class she was taking, she had decided to do a tap class as well. I thought about how many of the small children I taught went to dancing lessons. We have a large collection of books about ballet, a few on dance but what did we have about tap dancing? I went looking and found only four.
* Tallulah's Tap Shoes by Marilyn Singer. This lovely picture book is part of a series about Tallulah and her love of dancing.
* The Impossible Shoelaces by Ed Allen and Nathaniel Ekstrom. Here Caterpillar really wants to learn to tie his shoelaces so that he can tap dance!
* The Tip-Tap Dancing Cat by Joanna Boyle
* Don't Tap-Dance on Your Teacher Book 5 in a series of beginning chapter books Roscoe Riley Rules by Katherine Applegate.
Held annually, International TAP Dancing Day is on the 25th May each year.
Sunday, May 19, 2019
25th May International Tap Dancing Day
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Katherine Applegate,
Marilyn Singer,
shoelaces,
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I found a couple more? Tasha the tap dancing fairy (Rainbow Magic), Katie Morag and the dancing class and Flying Feet (Aussie Nibble). I love the idea of a day about tap dancing and wish I had the courage and co-ordination to try it myself.
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