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Footloose by Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford, Tim Bowers

antisocial_auntie's review against another edition

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5.0

About time Kenny Loggins made this song for the jungle! Look forward to dancing with the story time kids with this CD and book!

orsayor's review against another edition

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3.0

Cute Book. I always wondered what happened when the Zoo closes. Now I know - the animals are busy cutting Footloose.

jcpdiesel21's review against another edition

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4.0

One of my son's current favorite songs is Kenny's original version of "Footloose," so reading a version full of zoo animals cutting loose at night was a huge hit. Although the new phrases don't always fit perfectly within the song's rhythm, it's a lot of fun, especially when we broke out the CD to listen and sing along. The CD includes the silly, family-friendly "Monkey Medley" that also went over well. Perhaps not the best for a bedtime story since my son immediately wanted to get up and dance, but very enjoyable.

bookmarked_north734's review against another edition

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5.0

This was a storytime winner for everyone. Kids loved the pictures and being able to dance to the song, adults got a kick out of the familiar tune re-written.

sean67's review against another edition

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3.0

Footloose has always been one of those songs where people just seem to make up the words as long as they vaguely rhyme and sound like the original, any word seems to do, and so it is no surprise that Loggins himself has rewritten his song fro Children and this is the picture book version of the rewrite. Go figure, but songs as picture books seems to be officially a thing. Can't wait till they get to Madonna's catalogue...

fernandie's review

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3.0

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

katiepooh13's review

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5.0

This is a great book! The illustrations are amazing. Footloose is one of my favorite songs.

bookthia's review

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5.0

Such an awesome fun interpretation of the song lyrics with wonderful pictures for young readers. I dare you NOT to sing as you read it! Waitaminute! No I don't! PLEASE sing as you read it.

maidmarianlib's review

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3.0

Fun re-imagining of a classic just for kids. The illustrations are bold.

vzrivera's review

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3.0

Famous song adopted to picture book. It's long but I think I could definitely use it for Storytime. Maybe get the children to do the steps or maybe give them musical instruments.