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A review by mnboyer
I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison
4.0
This book is about a young girl that hears rhythm everywhere she goes and on a bright and sunny day she starts singing/dancing and gets others to join in. The book relies on onomatopoeia and other sound words, offers some great rhyme, and includes hip hop dance moves (a bonus!).
This book could best be used in a dance-type setting in which the instructor/librarian is teaching youth about dance, rhythm, rhyming, etc. Unique to this book is the inclusion of mainly diverse characters, including a black narrator who leads us on her dance expedition. The pairing of action words with the images could give youth more to think about – ask them to move to the book, essentially, creating a physical education component to the reading.
I found these illustrations to be some of the nicest because they actually look like they’re made out of chalk, pencil, etc., and on many pages have an almost 3-D feel to them. Another great thing about this book is that even though it is for younger readers, it includes a lot of ‘harder’ words that readers are getting used to (knock, for example). The words start off easy, get harder, and then as they get harder more words are added. A great reader could do a great job of making actual rhythms while reading this book, which I think would lend itself well to an in-person reading.
This book could best be used in a dance-type setting in which the instructor/librarian is teaching youth about dance, rhythm, rhyming, etc. Unique to this book is the inclusion of mainly diverse characters, including a black narrator who leads us on her dance expedition. The pairing of action words with the images could give youth more to think about – ask them to move to the book, essentially, creating a physical education component to the reading.
I found these illustrations to be some of the nicest because they actually look like they’re made out of chalk, pencil, etc., and on many pages have an almost 3-D feel to them. Another great thing about this book is that even though it is for younger readers, it includes a lot of ‘harder’ words that readers are getting used to (knock, for example). The words start off easy, get harder, and then as they get harder more words are added. A great reader could do a great job of making actual rhythms while reading this book, which I think would lend itself well to an in-person reading.