Giraffes Can't Dance

Cute and fun book. It has great artwork that keeps little ones attention. We love all things giraffes so it is the perfect book for us. We love it and I believe you will too.

This is Hands Down, 2 Thumbs Up a great book to have!! Love this book, and so do my little ones! It's sturdy, nice thick board book pages, the pages are bright and colorful, and the story is great! I have actually had this book before and I ended up getting it again! The story is cute and exciting. It expresses how we are all special in our own ways and sometimes we just need different music. Definitely recommend!!

This a great story and very bright colorful pictures. Rhymes well together and book is a perfect length. My 3 month old loves this book and it’s not always the easiest to get him to focus in longer books but I’ve read it multiple times to him and he still hasn’t became bored. Highly recommend.

One of my favourite books to read again and again, great story and message for little ones!

Adorable book with a great lesson! Have bought several for gifts…both the board size and the full size…beautifully rhyming story with beautiful illustrations! Great for 3 year olds up to….!

Wonderful children’s book!

The illustrations are awesome. The story has a 'moral' (or maybe just call it advice-just listen to the cricket) and the rhyming is fun. There are parts of the story I don't like.1) The giraffe is ridiculed by the other animals because he can't dance, and they tell him 'You are so weird, Gerald'. 2) Then the giraffe gets sad and he says some things about himself that are super negative, such as: 'They are right, I am no good, I am useless.' I am not quoting directly from the book, but this is very close to what is said by Gerald, the giraffe. I won't read those words to my 3 year old nephew, he is super sensitive. I will just change the words around a bit. Putting aside the few sentences I don't like, this book has a fun rhyming story with lots of fun characters, brought to life by colorful illustrations.The illustrations are so much fun, I really can't describe them; you just have to look. I can't help that I still would like the wording to be softer in the parts I mentioned, but in spite of that I love this book. I love the way Gerald ends up dancing and so do all the other animals.

This is a beautiful little illustrated rhyming story book with a great moral. There is a definite rhythm to the wording, and if you use the same rhythm as you read the book, you will see that it does, indeed, rhyme throughout. There are some reviewers who think that the moral for the story is all wrong - that Gerald the giraffe is bullied by the other animals until he "conforms." But, in my opinion, that is not the moral of the story at all. Rather, the moral is that if you aren't like everyone else, don't try to emulate them to fit in (this is highlighted pretty robustly for a kids' board book - for instance, each of the animals all have their own signature dance, and they are accepted, even though they all do different dances). Gerald the giraffe is depressed that he deesn't fit in with the other animals, and he expresses that feeling, which is a natural feeling that we'll all have at some point in our lives. But, he doesn't give up on himself. With a little encouragement, he finds his own different and special dance (platitude: he marches to the beat of a different drum), and the other animals are amazed by it. Moral: he isn't accepted because he conforms to some standard set by the other animals, he's accepted because he is true to himself. This point is hit again when he won't show the other animals how he's learned to dance - he doesn't want them to conform to his new standard, which allows them the opportunity to find their own dance and be true to their own selves. The point is then driven home by the closing rhyme: "We all can dance," he said. "When we find music that we love." It handily reminds us that every child is different. Many will like the book and will get the positive message, and many will not like the book. But that's OK - we all dance to different music.