Ballerina Dreams

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 .

Product details

• Authors: Michaela DePrince, Michaela (Author) DePrince, DePrince Michaela
• Assisted by: Ella Okstad (Illustration), Okstad Ella (Illustration)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 8
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780571329731
• ISBN: 978-0-571-32973-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 181 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Dance, People & places (Children's / Teenage), People & Places (Children's/Ya), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, True Stories (Children's/Ya), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Dance, ballet, Children’s / Teenage fiction: True stories told as fiction