Unicorns and Horses and Snakes, oh my!
Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn is a Mother’s Alternative Gold Award and Household Alternative Award Recipient (2022).
Interactive motion wrapped up in an enthralling story of sibling angst, anger administration, compassion, and triumph.
Fed up together with her annoying sister, Naomi storms out of the citadel, solely to find a unicorn in want of assist. With a way of function, she rapidly forgets her anger.
Ballerina Konora joins every web page with motion ideas. Youngsters can act out the story and observe dance fundamentals.
“Cheerful and heartwarming, this motion journey will encourage inventive expression by way of creativeness.
—Mary Lanni, Librarian/Reviewer
Motion, method, and dance ideas on this story embody:
- chassé ahead
- chassé sideways
- leaps (grand jetés)
- rond de jambe
- leg lifts
- cobra (again stretch)
- twisting
- muscle activation – on/off muscular tissues
- shifting with emotion
- idea of open/closed
- idea of highly effective motion
- idea of low/medium/excessive
Main themes embody sibling friendship, managing feelings, empathy, forgiveness, and serving to.
The books can be utilized as a complement for dance or theater studio lessons or camps. Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn could be pair properly with themes corresponding to dance, unicorns, princess tales, horses, legendary animals, flowers, and castles.
The Dance-It-Out! motion journeys are perfect for dance, pre-ballet, inventive motion, preschool, daycare, early studying, bodily training, homeschool, kindergarten, or first-grade actions. The complete assortment options male, feminine, and ungendered various characters. Books make a fantastic reward for teenagers enthusiastic about dance, ballet, gymnastics, or yoga, or reluctant readers who get pleasure from getting up and shifting.
With form characters, refined life classes, and a optimistic position mannequin in Ballerina Konora, academics love the kid-approved, ready-made, straightforward additions to curriculum and lesson planning. Youngsters at residence adore the tales that “younger readers will return to many times” (—Reedsy).
In regards to the Creator
As soon as Upon a Dance gives motion, breath, pleasure, connection and creativeness by way of tales.
The books are lovingly crafted by a mother-daughter pair. Ballerina Konora resides her desires as an expert ballerina. Her mom, Trainer Terrel, taught inventive motion and ballet for many years and was acknowledged by her native Metropolis Council for embodying the spirit of partnership and dedication to kids in our group for her work with younger dancers. Terrel’s breathed dance from each angle and has labored in training and with numerous non-profits supporting youngsters and households.
Go to www.OnceUponADance.com for details about their books (25 titles spanning ages 3-12), charity companions, instructor sources, youngsters’ bonus actions, and awards corresponding to:
• Kirkus Critiques Starred Evaluate
• Excellent Creator Awards Prime 10 Creator of 2022
• PenCraft Award First Place Winner
• Firebird Ebook Award First Place
• Royal Dragonfly Ebook Award First Place
• Pinnacle Ebook Achievement Award – Greatest Ebook Juvenile Fiction
• Excellent Creator Awards Winner – Greatest Youngsters’s Ebook
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