A bouncing picture book biography of the tap dancer behind the Happy Feet penguin, illustrated by the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Winner of Hidden Figures .
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
This is Tap! brings Savion\'s exuberant story of creativity and passion to young readers.
Hear the music with Selene Castrovilla\'s bouncing, bold rhymes.
Feel the movement with bright, electric art from Laura Freeman, winner Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Hidden Figures .
Read more about his impact on music and dance in the afterword.
From his appearances on Sesame Street and choreographing Happy Feet to his Tony award-winning musical Bring in \'da Noise, Bring in \'da Funk , Savion has inspired a new generation of tap dancers.
Savion Glover revitalized modern tap dancing with his jazz and hip-hop influenced free-form hard core style.
Child and parent can read the rhymes and onomatopoeia together while enjoying the bold artwork.
This picture book biography creates music with words and story, and dance with color and composition. \'Tippity, tippity, tappity, tappity, TROMP, TROMP, TROMP! Follow Savion\'s journey as beats crescendos into a love of dancing as self-expression.
Livin.
Not practicin\'.
All the time.
From that day on, Savion danced.
Soul meets sole.
And to delight and awe audiences with the movements of his body.
And it\'s about a boy, Savion Glover--who was born to feel the music--to dance and perform and invent.
This is a story about tap dancing, a distinctly American art form that blended English-Scottish-Irish clog dancing with African tribal dancing.
A bouncing picture book biography of the tap dancer behind the Happy Feet penguin, illustrated by the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Winner of Hidden Figures
