Introduces readers to the life of a ballet dancer and being in a show, provides brief profiles of famous ballet dancers, and retells six famous ballet stories, including "Sleeping Beauty," "The Nutcracker," and "The Firebird."

This simple introduction to the world of ballet tells about being a ballet dancer, putting on a show, and famous ballet stars.

This inspiring book takes readers through the basic exercises and ballet steps, to chapters on the music and the stories of ballet. Young readers will also learn about the famous dancers of the past including Anna Pavlova, Margot Fonteyn and others. First page features a 'This book belongs to...' bookplate. Ages 5+.

THIS MAGICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF BALLET IS FOR EVERY CHILD WHO DREAMS OF BEING A BALLERINA. IT TAKES READERS ON A JOURNEY FROM THE FIRST BALLET STEPS TO THE EXCITEMENT AND WONDER OF PUTTING ON A SHOW. THIS BEAUTIFUL TREASURY ALSO CONTAINS SIX OF THE MOST LOVED STORIES FROM THE BALLET.

From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America's self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, "John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, "attempts to effect social change through sympathy in the novels of Lydia Marie Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson's antislavery activism and Frederick Douglass's long fight for racial equity, and the divisive figures of John Brown and Nat Turner in American letters and memory. Focusing on exemplary instances when the nature of the United States as an essentially conflicted nation turned to force, Michael ultimately posits the development of a more cosmopolitan American identity, one that is more fully and justly imagined in response to the nation's ethical failings at home and abroad. John Michael is professor of English and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson "and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World."

Young ballet fans will love this informative book, showing simple steps to dance to music from famous ballets such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Press the pages to hear the music, arranged and produced by Anthony Marks. Produced with the help of the Central School of Ballet. Illustrations: Full colour throughout

How do ballet dancers balance on the tips of their toes? Why do they wear tutus? What happens in a ballet class? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more about the magical world of ballet.