Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story for Young Movers
Hardcover
Series: Dance-It-Out, Book 4
AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781736875063
Publisher: Once Upon a Dance
Published: May 11 2021
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn is a 2021 Mom's Choice Gold Award and 2022 Family Choice Award Recipient.
Interactive movement wrapped up in a charming story of sibling angst, anger management, compassion, and triumph. Grown-ups sit; kiddos move and practice dance fundamentals alongside Ballerina Konora.
Fed up with her annoying sister, Naomi storms out of the castle, only to discover a unicorn in need of help. With a sense of purpose, she quickly forgets her anger.
Ballerina Konora is featured on each page as optional movement guide for kids who want to get up and dance.
Cheerful and heartwarming, this movement adventure will inspire creative expression through imagination. -Mary Lanni, Librarian/Reviewer
Movement, technique, and dance concepts in this story include:
- chassé forward
- chassé sideways
- leaps (grand jetés)
- rond de jambe
- leg lifts
- cobra (back stretch)
- twisting
- muscle activation - on/off muscles
- moving with emotion
- concept of open/closed
- concept of powerful movement
- concept of low/medium/high
Major themes include sibling friendship, managing emotions, empathy, forgiveness, and helping.
The books can be used as a supplement for dance or theater studio classes or camps. Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn would be pair well with themes such as dance, unicorns, princess tales, horses, mythical animals, flowers, and castles.
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