Shake A Leg
No. of pages 32
Published: 2011
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This book has been graded for interest at 6-10 years.
There are 32 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2011 by Allen & Unwin .
Meme McDonald is a graduate of Victoria College of the Arts Drama School. She began her career as a theater and festival director, specializing in creating large-scale outdoor performance events. Since then she has worked as a multi-award-winning writer, photographer, and on film projects. Boori Monty Pryor is a multi-talented performer who has worked in film, television, modeling, sports, music and theater-in-education. Boori was Australia's inaugural Children's Laureate in 2012 and 2013. Jan Ormerod is the author and/or illustrator of more than 50 books for children. She lives in England.
5 stars: The illustrations draw us in to the cultural heritage being narrated by Bertie. There's a lightness of touch in the writing and it keeps the reader absorbed throughout, right to the superb end pages where strength of cultural identity and close-knit family ties come through exuberantly. The boys eat their pizza, get painted up with flour, water and tomato sauce and learn to dance, to warrima, to shake a leg. A super title. Books for Keeps A triumph of a story, illustration and design, in which Omerod's evocation of the movement, ancient mystery and vitality of the dances is remarkable. Ibby Link This book is a quirky combination of Aboriginal folk tale, traditional dance and cookery class with a bit of language learning thrown in to help you pick up some Italian and Yarrabah. There is an original and quirky stance on presentation too, ringing the changes between pages in comic strip format, others with orthodox page setting, some with boxed captions, some with speech bubbles. School Librarian