Angelina is starting a brand-new dance school and wants to focus on her ballet full-time. But she feels out of place when she realizes all her classmates can perform lots of different types of dance, like Irish step dancing, and that sheAs the only one who wants to do ballet!
Katharine Holabird grew up in a family of architects and artists in Chicago. As a child, she lived in an imaginary world of fairy tales, princesses, and ballerinas, and loved to perform and dance with her sisters. She wrote the first Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters twirling around her. Katharine has three grown children and three grandchildren, and now lives in New York City with her husband.
Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children, including the Angelina Ballerina books. She lives in England.
Angelina is starting a brand-new dance school and wants to focus on her ballet full-time. But she feels out of place when she realizes all her classmates can perform lots of different types of dance, like Irish step dancing, and that sheAs the only one who wants to do ballet!
Angelina is determined to prove she’s as good a dancer as all the older ballerinas. But learning to dance en pointe-in toe shoes-isn’t so easy for this mouseling. Will Angelina learn the hard way not to grow up too fast?
A little mouse named Angelina becomes the famous ballerina Mademoiselle Angelina after much practice at Miss Lilly’s Ballet School.
Discover all the things Angelina Ballerina loves in this super chubby board book that’s perfect for sharing with someone you love!
Angelina Ballerina loves lots of things! There’s her family and dancing of course—with her ballet class at Miss Lilly’s ballet school. And cartwheeling around the playground with her BFF, Alice. Fans of Angelina will love reading about everything Angelina loves (and probably things they love, too!)
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