Ballet Kids

by Holly Sterling

Hardcover, 2022

Status

Available

Call number

823.92

Genres

Children's Books

Collection

Children

Publication

(2022)

Description

Thomas wants to be a ballet kid! He and his friends meet at the dance studio to take lessons from Mr. Elliot, their ballet instructor. The children stand at the barre and practice their feet positions--first position, second position-as well how to plie and releve. And then it's time to saute, or jump! Finally, the ballet kids get to choose their costumes for the Winter Show where they are performing The Nutcracker. What will Thomas choose?

User reviews

LibraryThing member clrichm

Nowhere in this book is there a hint that Oliver, the main character, is doing anything exceptional by being a boy who wants to be a "ballet kid." In fact, other than showing him playing with an apparently female ballet dancer doll (which perhaps indicates the realistic lack of boy ballet dancer

dolls available), there's nothing on the pages to imply at all that there's anything unusual about any of what's in the story--not even Oliver's choice to wear a tutu and perform a traditionally female role in the Nutcracker production. The kids around him, his teacher, and his family are super supportive and happy for him, and that's just lovely.

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