giraffes cant dance
by giles andreae
published by scholastic
copyright 1999
29 pages
in this story, a girrafe named gerald wishes to dance, but he keeps falling over his long legas. every year at the jungle dance, all the other animals dance so amazingly that gerald feels left out. whenever he tries to dance all the other animals laugh at him and tell him the giraffes cant dance. gerald runs off by himself and wonders why he isnt able to. a cricket overhears him and tells him that he just needs to find the right kind of music. gerald listens to the wind and the cricket starts playing his violin and soon gerald starts to dance. all the other animals soon see how amazing he is at dancing and they ask how he did it. he says that anyone can dance as long as they have the right music. i love the message in this book. it shows children to not give up and to find a way to do what you want to do. i would recomend this book to everyone and i see no problems with it.