Henry Carter Hull

Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class.

Animals enjoy a variety of wintry activities in the snow.

Periwinkle loves to jump, twirl, and pirouette in her flouncy, bouncy white tutu until she accidentally gets a spot of pink paint on it.

Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.

Sophie the swan joins a ballet class and works hard to earn a part in the end-of-year performance of Swan Lake.

Little monkey will not get out of bed, so the doctor prescribes some exercise, and monkey learns to dance.

"The band is assembled and the band director is ready to tell you all about the instruments, but an enthusiastic little drummer girl keeps interrupting"--

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to try various instruments and join a band.

Rhyming text, accompanied by labeled illustrations that identify parts of the body, encourages readers to wiggle and twist, stomp and zig-zag, and hug and shrug.

When Grandma and Grandpa get a very special invitation, off they race in their trusty hippie van. The light-hearted verses bounce right along with them, sung to the tune of 'This old man.' But there are more than a few bumps in the road ahead. Can the van keep zipping along with a click clack rattle rack? And will they make it on time?