
Ballerina Dreams
by Michaela DePrince
Title:
Ballerina Dreams
Author:
Michaela DePrince
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571329731
EAN:
9780571329731
Classifications:
Children's and Teenage
Weight (g):
254
Dimensions (mm):
185 x 145 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.











