This Is Tap: Savion Glover Finds His Funk Castrovilla Selene

A bouncing picture book biography of the tap dancer behind the Happy Feet penguin, illustrated by the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Winner of Hidden Figures.This is a story about tap dancing, a distinctly American art form that blended English-Scottish-Irish clog dancing with African tribal dancing. And to delight and awe audiences with the movements of his body.Soul meets sole.From that day on, Savion danced.All the time. And it's about a boy, Savion Glover--who was born to feel the music--to dance and perform and invent.

'Tippity, tippity, tappity, tappity, TROMP, TROMP, TROMP!Follow Savion's journey as beats crescendos into a love of dancing as self-expression. Not practicin'. Livin. This picture book biography creates music with words and story, and dance with color and