Ballet Stars (Step into Reading)

Review "The simple, rhyming story and watercolor illustrations create a low-key, happy tone that makes the book a practical antidote to the terror that some children feel at the thought of dancing on stage...Well designed for beginning readers, and for reading aloud to younger children! -- Carolyn Phelan (Booklist) Product Description From ballet class to rehearsal for the big show to the final curtsies—budding ballet stars show emergent readers each step and pirouette along the way! This Step 1 story has big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, and picture clues and two sheets of irresistably adorable stickers. It's a natural for young readers who are learning ballet or aspire to take ballet classes. From the Author My sister and I took ballet class during kindergarten through second grade. I drew on our remembered experiences and visited ballet classes in my area to help me write this book. I hope you and your family enjoy it! About the Author JOAN HOLUB has written and/or illustrated over 130 books for children, including the popular Step into Reading title Shampoodle and other easy reader series such as Ant Hill (Aladdin) and the Why Do Dogs Bark? series (Penguin Young Readers). She is also co-author (with Suzanne Williams) of the Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain series (Aladdin, ages 8-12) and the Heroes in Training: Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom series (Aladdin, ages 7-11). SHELAGH MCNICHOLAS has illustrated a number of children's books. She always carries a sketch book in her pocket just in case she sees something inspiring, which happens often in the English countryside where she lives with her daughter and their cat.