This is the story of a Cow who wanted to Dance.

The good aspect of this book is that is one big poem. The rhymes tell a good story, and whether the child takes the Cow as verbatim or can substitute themselves in this picture, it is a good story to tell. You can do anything you set your heart out to do and when you fail you don't let the failure beat you but you get right back up and try again.

The Bad is that the personification of the cow is not consistent. Sometimes it's more convenient to be a cow than to be anything else. Sometimes Clorinda fights to be more than a cow...a cow who dances. But sometimes she is either not allowed to or does not want to as the case may be.

The Ugly. The print in this book is miniscule! Get your magnifying glasses out boys and girls and you will struggle reading the print. If you have an electron microscope hanging around you should do OK. It's a good book to read to a child, but not a book to have a child read to themselves.
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A cow dancing ballet? Why yes, but after a failed career in New York, Clorinda returns to the farm to bring the magic of dance to the animals living there. Rhymes and lessons are like peanut butter and jelly and this book brings the two together in a feel good sandwich. We should all try, because we never really know our limits until we do. Failure is never final, says Wooden: this is true in basketball, ballet and life. ( )

Clorinda is a cow who loves to dance. She goes to New York to try and make it big, but has to take a job as a waitress instead. When she finally gets a dancing job she crushes her dance partner because she is too heavy. She decides to go back to the farm and teaches all of the animals there how to dance.

This rhyming story told us about Clorinda the cow who dreamed of being a ballerina. She practiced and practiced until she decided to chase her dream and move to Manhatten. She experienced many failures and turn aways before she got her big break in the performance of Giselle. Things didn't turn out life she had hoped so she returned home to her farm where she began teaching dance to the other farm animals. ( )

This story turned out cuter than I expected it to be! :) Clorinda the Cow was one persistent ballerina, who ended up making it big with the home farm crowd. ( )