The Song and Dance Man

Nicole Leroy Instructor Michelle Hudgens side of meat 250 10 October 2012 The melody and Dance hu objet dartkind I choose the book The Song and Dance Man. This book was one of my favorites as a child. It was written by Kargonn Ackerman and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The Song and Dance Man true the Caldecott Medal in 1989. The story is roughly grandchildren coming to visit their grandfatherrents. The grandad resolved to certify his grandchildren his prehistoric vivification as a nisus and spring man and what people did for entertain long in the beginning television. The theme of the story is that family is more authorised than being noted.He arrays them that he appreciates his past merely loves the life he currently has. The grandad tapes throughout the story how much he loves and cherishes his time with his grandchildren. He also sh ars with them his ca handling life as a song and dance man on the vaudeville theatre stage and what people put on to do for en tertainment. In the attic, the grandchildren fill the posters of grandpa from the past realizing that he was once a famous dancer and entertainer. The underlying message is that it is central to stay young at heart. granddaddy danced away even though he had to cushion the corns on his feet.In the story, the grandpa says, I wonder if my wiretap shoes tranquillise fit? wholly while he is smiling, knowing that the shoes will cool it fit. The grandpa gives the children that it is ok to make re bellow and use your imagination to work a good time by sacramental manduction his dancing and magic tricks. The grandchildren get to search their own creativity by nerve-wracking on old garb pretending, sing and dancing their selves. The story is told from the point of situation of the grandchildren. You can feel the admiration, respect, and love that they nurture for their grandfather.As the grandchildren watch their grandpa, they clap their hands and call out Yay, Grandpa This sets the light-hearted, caper, loving sense of humor and tone of the story. The language used by the narrator is calm, loving, with mickles of excitement and surprise when grandpa begins to dance and becomes a diverse person, the song and dance man. The narrator shows his awe when he says that the sounds coming from the shoes is withal many an(prenominal) to be made with provided two feet. The children see their grandpa as a different person when he becomes the song and dance man.When they travel up the locomote to the attic it is like they are going rear end in time. In the story it says, We forget that it is grandpa dancing, and all we can hear is the silvery tap of two feet, and all we can see is song and dance man sailing across a vaudeville stage. from time to time during his performance, he becomes grandpa again when he tries to cure the hiccups of one of the grandchildren. Then he is cover version to performing telling jokes and vie tricks. The performance is over, he puts the shoes and clothes back in the trunk and heads for the staircase and he is grandpa again.When the children come back depressed stairs he whispers, He wouldnt trade a one thousand million good days for the days he spends with us. The silver half-moon tap shoes, tip hats, and bow ties all symbolize grandpas past as an entertainer forward he became a husband, father, and grandfather. The posters still hung in the attic shows his love of the past. When they return down stairs, grandpa glances back up the steps it symbolizes his appreciation and fondness of his past life as a song and dance man. The illustrator used many colour in a light, pastel in nature.The use of light instead of bright colors seems to set the stage for happy, calm, and relaxing setting. two of the main colors used by the illustrator are red and yellow. These colors arrive at a feeling of warmth, cheerfulness, and excitement. Some of the pictures have a lot of blue. The blue seems to take o n the calm, serenity of the setting. The pictures have a lot of texture through the picture marts because they attractive feature with some sort of colored pencils. The use of colored pencils helps add to the youthful, light heartedness, and fun of the story. Shading shows is used to show profundity and at time darkness at the edge of the lighted areas.The illustrator used of wads of empty space in the pictures to show quiet, serene time. For example, at the beginning of the story, to begin with the children arrived, the illustrations are small and do not take up the whole page. later(prenominal) in the story when the grandpa is dancing, the pages are full of color and pictures to show excitement, faeces of grandpas performance. The illustrator used many lines around characters and objects to show that they are moving. He used lots of lines, sometimes in a zig zag form, to show fast quick motions like when grandpa is dancing or tossing objects into the air.He used less lines to show slower movements and no lines to show lack of movement. The objects in the picture are random and tilted in places to show the relaxed nature of the environment at the grandparents house. In the end of the story, the grandpa and grandchildren returned down the stairs, back to present time, where grandma has dinner ready. He hugs his grandchildren showing them that even though he loved his song and dance life, he loves his grandchildren more. He would not trade them for no amount of fame.