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Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall.

Because Marie helps her poor parents by modeling for an ill-tempered artist, she becomes a famous ballerina but not in the way she had dreamed.

Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox, who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina.

Tired of the bragging of Percival the peacock, Poulette convinces the other hens in the barnyard that they can outperform the boastful bird in a ballet she creates.

Bernie and Lisa get even with Bootsie Barker, who is terrorizing their ballet class.

When Margo gets a sunny yellow tutu for her birthday it is exactly what she wants, and she wears it to school--on her head.

Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards.

Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker," and shares his loving memory of her.

A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team.

In this counting book, ten groups of animals indulge in ten different dances, from one osprey dancing ballet to ten flamingos doing the tango. Features pages that unfold into a panorama.

A ballet-loving swan wins acclaim when she manages to join the other dancers in a performance of Swan Lake.

For Ava and the other animal dancers, ballet class is an exciting experience.

Tilly is thrilled when she gets to see her aunt perform in the ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," especially because she gets to go backstage and even on the stage itself.

A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors.

Angelina the mouse goes by boat with her grandparents to the Mouseland Dance Festival, but gets into some trouble along the way.

Lili dreams of becoming a ballerina and goes to her ballet lessons four afternoons a week.

Describes the struggles and triumphs of a young girl learning and performing ballet.

Defying the odds, Clorinda the cow follows her dream of becoming a ballet dancer.

After she models for the artist and sculptor Edgar Degas, Marie feels transformed into a butterfly and becomes known all over the world as "The Little Dancer."

A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.

Through clues, rhythm, and rhyme, Shanna introduces youngsters to what it is like to be a ballerina, in an addition to a creative series that helps develop self-esteem and problem-solving skills.

After finishing her ballet class, Ella Bella listens to music from Tchaikovsky's ballet The sleeping beauty ballet and is magically transported into the story where the ballet takes place. She meets all the story's characters and she watches as the legendary tale unolds before her very eyes.

At the time of the Impressionists, a young ballet dancer races around Paris searching for Monsieur Degas, who accidentally took her bag--and the tutu she needs for the recital in which she is to perform that night. Includes reproductions of paintings by French Impressionist painters, with an author's note.

When a young girl starts dance class with another girl who has the same name, she is upset that the other girl copies everything she does.

Sylvie gets to attend ballet school, just like her big sister.

Feeling "bloopy and love-swoggled" in the presence of Catherine, the elegant ballet teacher, a humble fisherman tries to muster the courage to reveal his affection for her.

Stella would rather be a graceful pig ballerina than what she really is, a dog no one seems to like, but on the night of her ballet recital Stella learns that it is better to be herself.

When her cat disappears just before Tutu Day, Dolores, with the help of her sister, realizes that Duncan does not want to be a ballerina.

A nervous little swan, a demanding teacher, and others work hard to prepare for a ballet recital.

A little girl puts on costumes of different colors and imagines herself dancing on stage.

When she receives a ballerina costume from her uncle, Emma, who does not know how to be a ballerina, gets a lot of advice from friends and family.

Angry after a difficult day, Lila decides to quit ballet class but reconsiders after she realizes that dancing makes her feel much better.

When her brother goes off to school, Amanda finds new things to do, including ballet dancing, cleaning her room, and making a very sad, mad day go away, with the help of hugs from Mother Pig.

When Ella is banned from bringing her umbrella to the dance recital, she comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

When Belinda, a tiny girl with enormous feet, is cast as a clown in her school's talent show she is very unhappy, but after each disastrous rehearsal she observes an older student ballet dancing, then goes home to practice what she has seen.