Two friends get ready and then dance with their ballet class at a performance where they are the stars of the show. - (Baker & Taylor)

A class of budding ballet stars demonstrates dance steps while practicing for a big show on the stage, in a reading skill-developing story that features rhythmic text, illustrated clues and two sheets of stickers. By the author of Shampoodle. Simultaneous. - (Baker & Taylor)

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 reader has big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm. It's a natural for young readers who are learning ballet or aspire to take ballet classes. - (Random House, Inc.)

JOAN HOLUB has written and/or illustrated over 70 books for children, including the popular Step into Reading title Shampoodle. You can visit Joan at her website: JoanHolub.com.

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. - (Random House, Inc.)

Booklist Reviews

On the day of their recital, the children in a small ballet class don their new tights, tutus, and sparkly ribbons before warming up at the bar and practicing their leaps. They peek around the curtain to see their families and friends. Happy and excited to hear the music begin, the young dancers find their places on stage, where they "twirl like snowflakes, / sway like trees, / dancing steps / in twos and threes." The show ends with the children feeling like "ballet stars." 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. The audience is shown not as a faceless mob in a huge auditorium but as an amiable familiar group. Well designed for beginning readers, and fine for reading aloud to younger children. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews.

Horn Book Guide Reviews

A class of young ballet students warm up and perform in this simple rhyming text. Colorful illustrations portray the joy of the experience--no stage fright for this class. Appropriately for their age, the children are pictured on demi-toe, not en pointe; unfortunately, the cover shows two girls en pointe. Two sheets of stickers are included.