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    Cato’s Can Can

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    By Admin on March 14, 2022 Early Childhood Books, Highly Recommended, Picture Books, Reviews

    Juliet Sampson (text) and Katrina Fisher (illustrator), Cato’s Can Can, Ford Street Publishing, August 2021, 32 pp., RRP $16.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781925804768

    This romp of a picture book is about a bopping cocky in search of a dance partner. The text showcases all of Cato’s potential partners, in human and matching bird form, who strut their moves before mysteriously disappearing.

    While there’s lots to learn here – different dance styles, birds, and the days of the week – the movement in the watercolour illustrations matched with the bouncing text also make it delightful fun. I can imagine kids trying out the different dances and chiming in with the repetition of the inciting verbs – bop, bop, bop, snap, snap, snap, tap, tap, tap, etc.

    The mystery at the heart of the story is solved when Cato discovers the missing dancers in a dance studio, struts inside and performs the can can. Under the instructions of the dance teacher, everyone then learns the can can.

    Highly recommended for pre-school up.

    Reviewed by Heather Gallagher 

     

    Australian author Australian illustrator Cockatoos Dance

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