I can dance Hannah Beack books
Winner of the 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award (GOLD)
for Book with Music/Theatrical
Looking for resources to help your students find release through expressive play and build joy in the classroom together?
Emotional Health Through Expressive Play
I Can Dance is a six-book series with facilitated audio that brings expressive play back to children. Created by Hannah Beach, this updated edition nurtures creativity, emotional expression, and movement — filling a crucial gap in today’s play-deprived childhoods.
Supporting Social Emotional Learning
Written with all educators and all children in mind, regardless of ability, the award-winning and best-selling I Can Dance series has been adopted by English and French language school boards across Canada, as well as thousands of individual teachers and schools.
The books support educators and helping professionals to build social and emotional health in learning communities of all kinds. Teachers use these books everyday to foster self-expression, inclusion and community-building in their classrooms.
Primarily designed for students in Kindergarten to Grade 6, each of the six books in this series is accompanied by a QR code that contains rousing music, as well as guided audio facilitation (English version by Hannah) to assist educators of all backgrounds to bring movement and expressive play to their classrooms.
The books are incredibly easy to use: simply read the book out loud to your students, and then play the accompanying audio (via QR code) to get moving! You can choose the tracks with voice-over facilitation to guide your students through the activities, or choose the music-only tracks if you wish to guide your students directly.
Each title in the I Can Dance series
- features an introduction that focuses on how to use expressive play to support children’s emotional health.
- is designed for K–6 classrooms across Canada.
- includes digital access to music both with and without voice-over facilitation.
Free Sample Lesson
We are thrilled to provide access to a specially designed lesson for I Can Dance with a digital book that explores emotional health through expressive play. Expressive play supports children’s emotional well-being, offering movement-based activities that foster emotional release, connection, and joy in the classroom. Join the movement — bring expressive play to your students today!
All Hannah’s books are also available in French
