O baby won't you dance with me
Little baby bouncing on my knee
Wave your hands and shake your feet
Ooohh baby you're so sweet
From the familiar pleasures of baby's favorite food to the joy of dancing together, this collection of three songs celebrates the special relationship between a daddy and his little girl.
Garrison Keillor is the host of Public Radio International's A Prairie Home Companion and the author of many novels. He coauthored The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, with his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson, and wrote two picture books for younger readers. His adult titles include Lake Wobegon Days, Leaving Home, and The Book of Guys. He lives in Minnesota with his family.
Robin Preiss Glasser is a former ballerina who has become one of the most sought-after illustrators in the children's book business. She has illustrated more than fifteen children's stories, including Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer, and A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, both by Lynne Cheney; and You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, by Jacqueline Weitzman, which was an ALA Notable Book and a American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She lives with her family in California.
Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).
kodellpt
Posted January 28, 2010
I bought this book for my husband to enjoy with our toddler daughter. What a mistake!! The book references fat, and big- legged little girl. I had to permanent marker out the words for the book to stay in my house. I learned a lesson about THOROUGHLY reading any children's book before purchasing. Amazing this was a NY Times Best Seller. Are you joking????
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Posted January 19, 2011
I was disgusted at the very first page with the allusion of ownership of a little girl and the description of diaper changing. Felt like a voyeur in a totally inappropriate and uncomfortable scenarion being set up for a pedophile. Then it cleans up a awhile before going back into references of beauty shows, fat legged women. I will be burning the book and somehow feel dirty that it even entered my house
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Posted January 8, 2010
I bought this book for my husband to share with our 1 year old-I was appalled when I read it and so thankful I read ALL books myself before reading them to my daughter! Reading this book made me feel uncomfortable, like I was reading a naughty story about pedophilia! I left the book out for my husband to read and make sure I was not over reacting and he felt the same. The book references diaper changing as if it's a moment to bond between daddy and daughter and calls the baby "fat". The only half decent part are the illustrations and even those are minimally good at best.I will throw this book out as I would feel horrible donating it to some unsuspecting person-YUK!
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Posted October 10, 2012
I improved the book, by replacing "fattest" with "prettiest"baby,
and by replacing "large-legged" with "dancing" women.
This will help nurture the self-image of the young girl, instead of
labeling and pre-determining her future self-image.
How did the editor let that slide by?
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Posted August 3, 2009
I purchased this book for my husband from our daughter. Although she is older than the little girl in the book, she and my husband related to what the two shared in the book. I was a way to bring back the memories of there early years of just the two of them spending time doing special things together.
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Posted December 16, 2007
I got this for my husband and my daughter when she was about 18 months. She's almost 2 now and still loves it! She'll 'read' it herself and say 'Daddy Daddy Please say Yes' - cracks us up. It was a little long for her to sit through when I first got it, but she loves it now, and has us read through 2 or 3 of the stories.
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Posted August 12, 2007
Although I haven't a daughter, I read this book and my relationship with my son has gone from great to greater. Many things in this book don't only apply to daddies and their daughters, but also to mommies and their sons, daddies and their sons and mommies and daddies and their kids.
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Posted December 14, 2012
I also felt this book was bizarre. The tone was completely inappropriate for a father-daughter relationship. I read through a few pages with our 2 year old daughter, skipping a good majority of the lines before shutting it and putting it down. I later Googled the author's name, half-expecting to find some news article about being convicted of child sex crimes. Nope, world-renowned and well-loved author. Go figure.
Glad I only checked it out from the library. Don't buy this book.
Anonymous
Posted September 30, 2011
I bought this book for my husband from my daughter. I don't find the book at all inapproriate, and think some reviews are overly sensitive. There's nothing wrong with the parts about diaper changes or big legs. Let's not act like people don't have big legs or that it's a bad thing especially when most babies have cute fat thighs. My husband enjoys reading this book to our daughter, especially the part about b-a-n-a-n-a-s and my daughter often selects this as her nighttime book. Like other readers I preread everybook and I thought this was a cute book, it is a little on the long side.
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Posted April 13, 2005
I got this for my husband to read at night to our daughter Sophie, because he's a longtime Keillor fan. This book surprised me in that it has the Keillor warmth and tenderness, but there's also a sophistication to it that makes it exceptional. The CD of Keillor singing the songs is toe tapping! Great package.
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Overview
O baby won't you dance with me
Little baby bouncing on my knee
Wave your hands and shake your feet
Ooohh baby you're so sweet
From the familiar pleasures of baby's favorite food to the joy of dancing together, this collection of three songs celebrates the special relationship between a daddy and his little girl.