Fenix and the Firework Fliers
A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story
Published on 1. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
38 pages
978-1-955555-82-1 (ISBN)
Description
If you love stories with helpful characters and positive messages, you'll love Fenix and the Firework Fliers, a charming story of friendship and courage.
Join Fenix, a little firefly on big mission to help Bolt, a Firework Flier who ate too much nectar and can't fly. Fenix must overcome fears and challenges to reach the top of the tallest tree, where the grand finale of the Solstice Celebration awaits. Along the way, creatures of the Silver Birch Forest will test the firefly's wits.
Will Fenix make it to the top in time?
Who will be the Spirit of the Year?
And what will happen when the fireflies light up the sky in a dazzling, darting, dizzying kaleidoscope?
Find out in this delightful tale that will spark imagination and get kids up and moving. Readers are invited to act out the story, and Ballerina Konora joins the pages with suggestions for those who want StoryMoving ideas. Readers will stretch, reach, balance, crouch, jump, flutter, flap, spin, and more alongside story animals and Ballerina Konora.
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Series
Language
English
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 5 to 8 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-955555-82-1 (9781955555821)
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Once Upon a Dance is a mother-daughter collaboration. Konora is an apprentice with Ballet Idaho and previously danced with Pacific Northwest Ballet's Professional Division. Growing up, she danced iconic roles such as Sugar Plum Fairy and Cinderella. Konora's mother taught creative movement and ballet for decades and was honored to be chosen and recognized by her local City Council (2014) for embodying the spirit of partnership and commitment to children in our community for her work with young dancers. She's breathed dance from every angle: child to pre-professional to adult ballet student, zoom student, dance teacher, dance mom, competition mom, ballet-school parent-guilder, audience member, recital planner, business owner, and board member. Dance-It-Out! Creative Movement Stories have won numerous awards in 2021 including PenCraft First Place, Mom's Choice Gold, Firebird First Place, and Royal Dragonfly First Place.