Ballerina Dreams
Editorial FABER & FABER
Mainland Spain
- Publisher FABER & FABER
- ISBN13 9780571329731
- ISBN10 057132973X
- Type Book
- Pages 80
- Published 2017
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
Children's Literature In EnglishBallerina Dreams
Editorial FABER & FABER
Mainland Spain
Book Details
One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out and caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine. She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle. She looked very happy.
At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She has been dancing ever since, and after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Beautifully and gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince's highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe.