A Child's Introduction to Ballet: The Stories, Music, and Magic of Classical Dance

by Laura Lee

Book Overview

Ballet dancers of all ages love the mesmerizing stories of the world's great ballets, and in this charmingly illustrated book plus music CD, younger readers will enjoy fun facts, dancing how-tos, some history behind the dances and compositions, plus profiles of famous ballerinas and dancers while listening to excerpts of classical music. From Swan Lake and The Nutcracker to Peter and the Wolf and Fancy Free , the twenty-five of the world's best-loved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579126995
• ISBN13: 9781579126995
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

My daughter loves ballet

I got this book for my daughter who is obsessed with ballet right now. I liked the cd addition. Unfortunately the book I received was missing the cd and that wasn’t mentioned in the description. Rather disappointed.

A beautiful book

I gave it to my 5 year old daughter who has enjoyed dancing to the CD and learning a little about each of the ballets (although as the other review pointed out,I have had to be aware of what information to tell her).

Great Book for Children, for Ballet Classes and as a Teaching Aid

I am a dance teacher and I love using books and videos as teaching aids and supplements to my curriculum. This book is excellent, it tells the stories of the great classical ballets in short story, understandable format for children and includes music!

I like it, but the age rating may be wrong.

I bought this so that I would have something to read to my ballet students occasionally. It is a beautiful book, however, I would recommend it for maybe the 8-10 age group. The music is nice to listen to at any age though. I had quite forgotten how many of the themes of ballets are a little racy! And how would a 4-5 year react to stories about love triangles, suicide (Romeo and Juliet), and other "mature" themes in ballet. I think older ballet students would get more of a kick out of this book than 4-6 year olds would.