Picture Book Ballerinas
Similar to classic picture book star Angelina Ballerina, it was after one too many near misses as I waltzed my way through the grocery store, that my parents decided I needed to be signed up for dance classes. Over the years ballet taught me so much, gave me strength, discipline, grace, and a little bit of French vocabulary. Check out these picture book ballerinas, perfect for story time with your little twinkle toes.
It’s the perfect bedtime story and ballet recital all wrapped into a fun, rhyming picture book that’s sure to have many encore performances.
Ease the wind-down to sleep with this graceful, playful rhyme that will have children gliding into bed!
Two satin slippers with bunny-ear toes and stripy pajamas are dreamy dance clothes . . .
When the sun sets, the ballet can begin! From the first notes of the crickets’ outdoor orchestra to her grand finale indoors, one little girl glissés and jetés her way to bedtime. Rhyming verse, fun sound effects and elegant French words add delicious read-aloud flair to this delightful, dance-filled tale.
Matilda is a little bunny who sometimes feels a little lost. But soon she finds dance, and the beauty of ballet, which also might be her breakout role. Also: where can I sign up for bunny ballet? It sounds adorably amazing.
Meet Matilda the bunny! She lives with her mother, her father, and…her many many brothers and sisters.
Sometimes Matilda finds herself lost in the middle. But when her mother signs her up for bunny ballet, Matilda feels she has finally found a place to shine–if she can get her family to notice, that is.
Cori Coerrfeld’s timeless tales shows that sometimes the middle is the very best place to be.
Not everyone can be the Sugar Plum Fairy, or Odette, or in Gerry’s case, the Crystal Princess. But each performer plays an important role and although Gerry is cast as a jester, she just might save the day.
Everyone’s favorite fairy princess is back and just in time for her ballet recital in this new picture book addition to the Julie Andrews Collection. At first, when Gerry is cast as the Court Jester and not the Crystal Princess, she is dismayed — nothing is pink and no one can see her crown under her silly jester hat! But just as the recital looks like it’s headed for disaster, our ever-energetic very fairy princess swoops in to save the day!
Gerry’s sparkle radiates from the page once more through Christine Davenier’s whimsically elegant illustrations in this spirited, ballet-themed follow-up to The Very Fairy Princess from the renowned mother-daughter team of Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.