Customer Reviews

Barnyard Dance

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My daughter received this book as a gift when she was born. I love the rhythm that you can almost sign this to your child. It's a very upbeat fun book and my daughter loves it too!

I love the square-dance caller's rhythm of this book. It's so easy to memorize, sing, chant, make silly noises with. My 2 year old son says "Read it again!" at the end every single time. My six year old daughter dances around while I read it to him. Everyone is equally entertained by this book: listener, observer, and most definitely reader! A true 5 star book.

My two year old girl literally "bows" to the horse and "bows" to the cow and then she twirls and it goes on and on. She interacts with this book every time we read it. It's so upbeat and fun. We first took it out of the library and it broke my heart to have to return it. So I came here and ordered her her very own copy. I can't wait for her baby brother to engage in this book soon too.

Sandra Boynton's books are so rhythmic that you can't help singing or at least reading in cadence. It's good for me at the end of a hard day to lose myself in the reading of her books. It's just good to act silly, and her books almost require that we adults do that. It's good to be cajoled iinto that.

Barnyard Dance is particularly fun. And reading it (or singing it, which is what I generally end up doing) always elicits, "Do again, Daddy!" from my young ones.

Both my son and I love this book. The sing song rhymes are so much fun and the pictures are so cute. I have it memorized and will recite it to my son while we are in the car and that always makes him laugh. A must have for early reading.

Very cute and fun to read. The rhymes are great and we don't get tired of them.

We've been reading (singing) this book to our son since he was 6 months old. It's one of his favorites still at 15 months old. When Grandma comes over it's the first book he wants her to read...every single time. And she's more than happy to oblige since it's so much fun to read. It's such a great book---with cute illustrations and rhyming, you'll find yourself singing it out loud in no time.

I have enjoyed every Sandra Boynton book I've read- the pictures are excellent, the words rhyme and flow smoothly, there is always a good story/plot- and this book is not an exception. This book describes a dance step-by-step; exactly like a caller for a dance. The words really seem to make the book come alive. They have a beat and almost sound like music when read out-loud. The words rhyme, but one almost doesn't realize it because by that time they are borne onward by the wonderful tide of words. Like always, the pictures are excellent as well. As you may have realized, I really like this book and believe it is one of Boynton's best.

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When my now-8-year-old daughter was a baby I discovered and fell in love with Sandra Boynton's board books. Our favorite has always been _Barnyard Dance_. The hysterical illustrations and the 'bouncy' rhythm make it fun for the grown-ups as well as the child. Now that I have a 1-year-old son, I'm having a great time reading them all to him for the first (second, third, hundredth) time. And, since I have the words memorized, he can hold the book however he wants.

We started reading this book to our son when he was 6 months old. He's 4 now, and can "read" the book to us - we all know it by heart. And when we share the story, we often sing it and dance along with the cow and pig and chickens and company. The pictures are marvelously bright and fun, and the lilting words of the story are so catchy you have to make up a tune and sing out the story.