Kids who've gotta dance will be stomping their feet for this lively look at the rhythm of life around them: music, percussion, and tap dance--complete with a pair of durable plastic click-clackin' tappers that turn ordinary footwear into incredible dancing shoes! Kids learn how to groove to the rhythm of their heart or pulse. Instructions are given on making stamping sticks, shakers, tambourines, gongs, and other percussion instruments. The elastic bands with click clackers slip comfortably around children's feet and over most shoes. All kids need to do is step down and make some sound to create Stomp-like performances that emphasize the delightful music that can be made by an imaginative mind, clapping hands, and two click-clackin' feet.

The author Lilly Barnes fictional character is based on her own mother, a concert pianist in the Ural mountains of the Soviet Union, the city of Beresniki. Her German father, a mining engineer, was there on contract building mines. The novel Mara touches on the authors experience through Europe and immigration to Canada. Although the story is fictional it touches on the experience of immigrants and a point of view that is unique to the author but not unfamiliar to many living in Canada today.

Lilly Barnes was born in Russia, studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Vienna, and worked for many years as an arts journalist and scriptwriter for CBC Radio and Television, including, for its entire run, the "Mr. Dressup" show. Mara is her first novel.

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