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7 sets of traditional dances, singing games and fingerplays/action songs plus videos teaching the dances. Exceptionally well done for all ages and very popular resources!

Fingerplays, Action Songs, Singing Games, and Stories for Young Children ed. by Mary Alice Amidon & Andy Davis of New England Dancing Masters.

Sofia Lopez-Ibor uses the ideas and processes of Orff Schulwerk, always seeking the experience of the music, the story, the art, the dance. 

Songs, Dances, Fingerplays and Music Activities for the Very Young, Their Teachers, Families and Communities by Eric Maring “Mr. M”

Barn Dance! by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault is the book to read. LeVar Burton visits a Tennessee hoedown, bluegrass music, and clogging lesson at an authentic barn dance.

In the book by Petra Mathers a shy mouse teaches herself to dance.  From mambo to hip-hop, host LeVar Burton does some fancy footwork, then he takes us on a tour of dance around the world.

In Eve Bunting's book a boy travels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with his father to seek his grandfather's name. 

In the book by Margaree King Mitchell, Uncle Jed, a black barber, struggles through the Great Depression to save enough money to open his own barbershop.