Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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2007., Juvenile, Feiwel and Friends Call No: 618.92 836 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the true story of how five little girls who suffer from cerebral palsy had their dreams come true by becoming ballerinas.
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c2001., Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A creative minds biographySummary Note: Provides information about the life and career of renowned Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Easy LYON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet. Soon Sylvia learns how to fly-- how to dance--and how to dare to dream. Includes a note from the author and a brief history of the bookmobile.
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2001, c1999., Primary, Puffin Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.
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2006., Juvenile, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: 741.5 SIE Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to dance class in Boston to performing with the New York City Ballet.
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2018., little bee books Call No: JNF007120 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wilkinson, the first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company and an inspiration to Misty Copeland. When she was only five years old, her parents took her to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Raven perched on her crushed velvet seat, heard the tympani, and cried with delight even before the curtain lifted. From that moment on, her passion for dance only grew deeper inside of her. No black ballerina had ever danced with a major touring troupe before. Raven would be the first. Raven Wilkinson was born on February 2, 1935, in New York City. From the time she was a little girl, all she wanted to do was dance. On Raven's ninth birthday, her uncle gifted her with ballet lessons, and she completely fell in love with dance. While she was a student at Columbia University, Raven auditioned for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and was finally accepted on her third try, even after being told she couldn't dance with them because of her skin color. When she started touring with her troupe in the United States in 1955, Raven encountered much racism in the South, but the applause, alongside the opportunity to dance, made all the hardship worth it. Several years later she would dance for royalty with the Dutch National Ballet and regularly performed with the New York City Opera until she was fifty. This beautiful picture book tells the uplifting story of the first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company and how she became a huge inspiration for Misty Copeland. Theodore Taylor III's unique, heavy line style of illustration brings a deeper level of fluidity and life to the work, and Misty Copeland's beautifully written foreword will delight ballet and dance fans of all ages"--
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c2002., Pre-adolescent, Grosset & Dunlap Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Who was-- ?Summary Note: A biography of the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from a life on a reservation to a career on the stage.
