Ballerina!
by Peter Sís
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A little girl puts on costumes of different colors and imagines herself dancing on stage.Tags
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This story is about a girl named Terry who loves ballet. She dreams of being a ballerina one day so every day she practices a new move, while wearing a new costume. The book ends with her combining everything she had practiced and becoming the "best ballerina of all." This is a very fun, yet educational book. This shows young children that if you want to be the best at something, then practice at it and you will achieve your goal. This can relate to any age, race, and gender because the same rules apply to all. Work hard and achieve your dreams. I do feel like the pictures were not as detailed as they could have been, if the illustrations were better I would have given 4 stars.
Terry is a little girl who loves ballet, she prepares her every day because she want to improve her self. During her practices she reflects her-self as a professional ballerina. She realizes many activities and movements until she finally can repeat them.
Age: 3-8
Source: Pierce College Library
Age: 3-8
Source: Pierce College Library
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Peter Sis was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1949 and attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career as a filmmaker and won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short. He has also won the Grand Prix Toronto and the Cine Golden Eagle Award, and in show more 1983 collaborated with Bob Dylan on You Got to Serve Somebody. His film work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1982 Sis was sent to Los Angeles to produce a film for the 1984 Winter Olympics. But the film project was canceled when Czechoslovakia and the entire Eastern bloc decided to boycott the Olympics. Ordered by his government to return home, Sis decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. Sis then met Maurice Sendak who introduced him to children's books, and he moved to New York City in 1984 to begin a career in children's literature. Sís earned quick acclaim with the publication of the 1986 Newbery Medal Winner, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman, for which he did the illustrations. Sis is a five-time winner of The New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.. Komodo! and A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North were each named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, and he has won a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Komodo! and a Silver Medal for The Three Golden Keys. Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei was a 1997 Caldecott Honor Book, as was Tibet Through the Red Box. Sis has also received a MacArthur Fellowship Sis' editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines in the United States and abroad. He has published nearly 1,000 drawings in The New York Times Book Review. He has designed many book jackets and posters, including, in 1984, the famous poster for Milos Forman's Academy Award-winning motion picture Amadeus. He has also completed a mural for the Washington/Baltimore Airport, a poster for the New York City subway system, and a stage set for the Joffrey Ballet. His work has been exhibited in Prague, London, Zurich, Hamburg, Los Angeles, and New York in both group and one-man shows. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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