{"id":45317,"date":"2025-07-03T20:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45317"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:03:02","slug":"review-of-dance-fast-by-a-r-cribbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45317","title":{"rendered":"Review of Dance Fast, by A. R. Cribbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dance_fast_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dance_fast_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45399\" \/><\/a><em>Dance Fast<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by AR Cribbins<\/p>\n<p>Little, Brown and Company, 2024.  36 pages.<br \/>\nReview written June 9, 2025, from a library book.<\/p>\n<p>This picture book has a lovely message about perfectionist that will speak to kids and adults alike.<\/p>\n<p>A little girl named Bizzy tells the story.  She wants to dance at this year&#8217;s ceremony and wants her own regalia.  But her mother&#8217;s old dance dress is too big, so she plans to make her own regalia with her mom and grandma.  She wants it to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Bizzy has sewn pillows before.  She&#8217;s confident in her skills.  But then things go wrong, and she&#8217;s convinced her dress is ruined.<\/p>\n<p>After some more trials and tribulations, her grandma shows her own dance regalia and explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grandma says it&#8217;s the Pomo way to leave one little flaw in everything you make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then we dance fast so no one sees where that part is!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book ends with Bizzy happily dancing, in a beautiful dress complete with flaws.<\/p>\n<p>I love a book that speaks to children in a natural way about beauty in mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcribbins.com\/\">arcribbins.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/imprint\/little-brown-books-for-young-readers\/\">LBYR.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0316539384\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/dance_fast.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/dance_fast.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance Fast by AR Cribbins Little, Brown and Company, 2024. 36 pages. Review written June 9, 2025, from a library book. This picture book has a lovely message about perfectionist that will speak to kids and adults alike. A little girl named Bizzy tells the story. She wants to dance at this year&#8217;s ceremony and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-picture-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45400,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions\/45400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}