Also on day 2, the Share a Story-Shape a Future hosts posted the following prompt to encourage other bloggers to share their favorite books about other cultures: "An acquaintance wants a book about a culture unlike his/her own.... You've got 100 words to pitch your favorite book. Pitch us!"
Well, I have quite a large pile of dance books on the floor in my bedroom, all waiting for the lucky day when they are chosen as the highlight of my next blog post. And wouldn't you know? One of them was about dance from another culture! So here goes my pitch...
Capoeira, which has been described as a way of life in Brazil, is now popular in many parts of the world. But what is it? A game? A dance? A martial art? Believe it or not, it's all three! Award-winning photographer and author George Ancona brings this fascinating activity and its African and Portuguese origins to life in the picture book Capoeira, published in 2007 by multicultural publisher Lee and Low Books. You will be amazed by the cunning technique and playful spirit of the many young capoeiristas who are featured in this book!
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By: Chris Singer,
on 3/8/2011
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Book Dads is honored to be a part of Share A Story, Shape a Future. This is my first time to be participating and I couldn’t be happier to be one of the hosts for today’s theme: The Gift of Reading. For today’s post, I asked dads, bloggers and authors I know to answer the following question:
Write about the “gift” you received as a dad upon seeing your child read their first words? Or by seeing them just hold the book on their own for the very first time and leaf through the pages. Or by simply seeing them enjoying a book. Please feel free to write anything about the “gift” you received from your child’s exposure to reading.
Part 1 was posted earlier today. What follows is Part 2…
~ Alan Kercinik, Word Nerd & Dad Blogger from Chicago: @alankercinik / www.alwaysjacked.com
“Jack isn’t old enough to read, but is old enough to insist upon “Book! Book!” before he goes to bed. It is the best part of my day, coming home from work and bonding with him over a story or three. When we’re done, he takes his books to bed and pages through them, pointing at the things he knows and saying their names out loud. It’s an echo of my own childhood when I turn out the light and tell him to not stay up all night, reading.
When I get him in the morning, there he is, sitting up and paging through his books, and I smile and think that maybe he is already defying me. I would take this kind of disobedience every day.”
~ Read Aloud Dad, Child Literacy blogger at www.readalouddad.com / @readalouddad
“Incredible. Even though my 3-year 8-month old girl and boy do not know how to read yet, every day they “read” many more books than I manage to read! Guess why I’ve got this gift of a smile on my face every day?”
~ Why Is Daddy Crying, www.whyisdaddycrying / @whyisdaddycryin
“From chewing eight-page cardboard books, to sitting naked on the training potty eagerly trying to find “Waldo,” to listening to my many voices recount “Horton’s” heroic efforts to save t
Thank you, Kerry! Great pitch and great list. I'm definitely going to see if I can find those books!
Hi, Beth. Thanks for stopping by! Some of the books might be harder to find than others, but I hope you do find them!