Fantasy is rife in this book published by the Once Upon a
Dance company. Its illustrations are fantastic, and eye-catching to both
children and adults alike.
This story revolves around Dayana, her baby brother Dax and a dancing Dragon, Kadeena. Together, Dayana and Kadeena explore the different dance movements. These dance movements are emphasized in the same page by Ballerina Konora, who through words and photos of the different poses, shows step by step how these dance moves are done.
I found this book very interesting. It was the first time
that I read something like this. Besides the beautiful illustrations where the
children and Kadeena seem to pop out of the pages, the book teaches the
readers, various ballet moves. The story aims to inspire the
young dancers to imagine, fantasise and create. In fact in the opening pages,
ballerina Konora tells the reader that there is no need to be a dragon like Kadeena
to be able to do the dance moves.
Besides the dance moves pictured in every page, this book teaches us something else. This is that we should not judge on appearance. Dayana judged her baby brother as being useless. Likewise, she thought that Kadeena was not good at dancing. This was a wrong judgement as in fact Kadeena had been to many places and knew a lot of different dances.
I found this book very inspiring as it aims to instill in our children the values of treating others with respect and not judging others. The book also encourages children to take up dancing as a form of fitness activity.
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