Reviewed from copy received from Chronicle Books.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Now all children need is a friendly flamingo. It takes the emphasis off of the clothes of ballet and back to the dance itself. Instead wearing her swim gear, she is able to mimic the flamingo all the better. I love Flora and her lack of tulle and ballet outfit. It turns readers into storytellers in a way that is engaging and free, just as this entire book is throughout. There is a pleasure in lengthening the dance by having the two of them dance movements again and again by opening and closing the flaps. It tells the story of a young girl named Flora who discovers a flamingo and engages in a playful. It has the draw of flaps to open, but that is all about the dance and the movement. 'Flora and the Flamingo' is a childrens book written and illustrated by Molly Idle. Idle has a stunning simplicity in this book. What happens next speaks to what friends should do when they see someone take a flop. It all goes well until Flora loses her footing and flops into the water. Then the flamingo launches into a dance that Flora struggles to match in her swimcap and flippers. Inside it’s very pink cover is a very pink world that is pure pink fabulousness! In this wordless book, Flora meets the flamingo and immediately imitates its stance and attitude. So it was with that bias and perhaps a cringe or two that I opened this book. There are oh so many ballet books out there for little ballerinas who look for tulle and pointe shoes.
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Her debut novel Something Strange and Deadly was released in July 2012, followed by its sequel A Darkness Strange and Lovely, released in July 2013, and Strange and Ever After in July 2014. Career ĭennard focused on writing for publication upon leaving her PhD program. She currently lives in the Midwestern US. In 2009, she chose to forego venturing a PhD and joined her husband in Germany. This work led her around the world, to almost all of the seven continents, with the exception of Asia. She originally planned to major in English at University of Georgia, but was "sidetracked by science" and obtained a bachelor's degrees in fisheries and statistics instead, and then received her master's in marine biology at the Great Lakes Institute for environmental research in Windsor, Ontario, with the intention of solving the problem of overfishing. Susan Dennard was born on February 25, 1984, in the state of Virginia, but primarily grew up in Dalton, Georgia. 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