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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six — and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine.

To Dance tells and shows the fullness of her dreams and her rhapsodic life they led to. Part family history, part backstage drama, here is an original, firsthand graphic novel about a young dancer's beginnings — and beyond.

In this refreshed and expanded special edition of the Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir, young readers get a peek through a remarkable window into a ballerina's world.

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"A husband and wife team up to provide an insightful, accessible, and aesthetically engaging graphic novel that follows the latter's dance career... The fully realized account goes beyond the sacrifices and rewards she experienced to other matters, such as the effects of her parents' separation and divorce and her awe of ballet master George Balanchine. Mark Siegel's images are often pretty, but like the story his wife tells, they are honest about a ballerina's life. Foot pain, leg injuries, and more are a part of Siena's story, which provides those who hope for or wonder about a career in dancing with a candid view of an individual for whom ballet is essential to a fulfilling life." — Booklist

Product Details

Recommended Age 9 - 13
Author Siena Cherson Siegel
Illustrator Mark Siegel
Publication Date Sep 5, 2006
Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language English