"I Will Dance" puts us in this child's chair, in her tiny yearning body and in her mind, which is mobile and alive. ...It's not that she wants to dance, it's that she will. ... We see the power and harmony that builds from dancing bodies in Julianna Swaney's illustrations, which glide across the page lending innocence to lightness, effervescence to urgency. "I Will Dance" rides on the sensation of movement; it's simple yet sophisticated." --NY Times Book Review
"Flood's text avoids sentimentality and taps into a longing that many youngsters have shared, and the description of the girl's participation in the dance classes and eventual performance lyrically conveys the sublime possibilities of art."--BCCB