Jane Goldberg's new book, Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories from the Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side is now available. It features a foreward by the late Gregory Hines.

From the promo:
This is not a history of tap dancing. It is one determined woman's highly personal account of falling in love with and living the tap life. One of the linchpins behind the Great Tap Revival of the 1970s and 80s, Jane Goldberg tracked down, studied with, and performed alongside some of the tap greats of the twentieth century. In the process, she came up with a genre all her own: Rhythm & Schmooze.

A bonus DVD with: By Word of Foot: Tap Masters Pass On Their Tradition (1980) plus excerpts of Rhythm & Schmooze will be included, but only if you order the book through www.janegoldberg.org

Tapping the Source: Tap Dance Stories, Theory, and Practice is the name of a new book by long-time tap professional, Brenda Bufalino. In the 240 page book, published by Codhill Press, Bufalino "explores the recent history of tap dance and shares stories about her early ...

The prolific children's book writer James Stevenson has added another book to his beloved Mud Flap series with Flying Feet: A Mud Flap Story. Geared towards very young (preschool to 3rd grade) children, the book tells the story of a small town which is turned upside down when tap dancers Tonya and Ted show up.

A new children's book about tap dance great "Peg Leg" Bates has been published by Lee & Low Books. The book, titled "Knockin' On Wood" by writer and artist Lynne Barasch, follows Bates' life "from his days as a child...where he would dance on the streets...for spare change, to the day when, at age 12, he lost part of his left leg in an accident at a cottonseed mill....

Gotta Dance!: The Rhythms of Jazz and Tap, a small, 48 page, picture book of tap, targeted at grade school children, will be published in January 2004. Author Jenai Cutcher is a freelance writer and is on the faculty of Steps in New York City.