With artwork by Mark Siegel.
In the form of a graphic novel, a ballerina offers her memoir."Big open spaces always made me dance," is the opening line for the memoir that begins when a doctor tells her at age six that she has flat feet and her mother decides that dance classes might help. Thus begins a fascination and passion for dance fueled with lessons and visits to ballet performances. When she was eleven, she auditioned for the School of American Ballet and her family moved to New York City following her acceptance. The graphic novel formats allows the artist, her husband to use various numbers and sizes of panels to zoom in on a ballerina's hands, or to capture movement and emotion through a quick series.
Grades 4-8.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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I don't much like graphic stories, but this one works surprisingly well. It has just enough text and the pictures are quite appealing. It is less busy than most graphic novels. Although "novel" is part of the title, this is really a true story of the author's youth. It will have high appeal to upper elementary girls who are aspiring dancers.
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