Books of Ballerinas

  • Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina
    By Katherine E. Krohn

    Provides an introduction to the life and biography of Evelyn Cisneros, the famous Hispanic American ballet dancer.

  • My Rainbow Castle
    By Lily Karr, Cartwheel Books

    The princesses have to perform in their ballet show but they can't find their tights, ballet shoes, and tutus, in a castle-shaped book with over forty flaps to lift. On board pages.

  • The Last Train from Paris
    By Stacy Cohen

    The story of two young artists struggling against Nazi tyranny.

  • Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella
    By James Mayhew

    Enter the magical world of the ballet with the adorable Ella Bella Ballerina!

  • I Am a Ballerina
    By Valerie Coulman

    An irresistible and determined ballerina shows readers how to reach for their dreams.

  • Ballerinas are Beautiful
    By Kath Smith

    Ballerinas are Beautiful

  • Barbie in the Pink Shoes Little Golden Book
    By Mary Tillworth

    Kristyn is a ballerina who dreams of dancing the perfect dance. When she steps into a pair of magical pink shoes, she is swept into the world of her favorite ballet--and she is the star!

  • Barbie in the Pink Shoes
    By Mary Tillworth

    Girls 3-7 will love this full-color storybook based on the latest Barbie movie.

  • Margot Fonteyn
    By Mary Clarke

    Margot Fonteyn

  • Barbie 9 Favorite Fairy Tales (Barbie)
    By Various

    Contains nine fairy tales based on Barbie motion pictures.

  • Maria Tallchief: Native American Ballerina
    By Paul Lang

    Tells the story of ballerina Maria Tallchief, focusing on her Native American background and her rise to fame with the New York City Ballet.

  • Russian Winter
    By Daphne Kalotay

    Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in ...

  • If I Were a Ballerina
    By Thomas Kingsley Troupe

    If I were a ballerina, I would wear pointe shoes. I would stretch my legs and leap across the stage! Dream big, and see what fun it is to be a ballerina.

  • Ballerina Dreams
    By Michaela DePrince, Elaine Deprince

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted for a younger audience, this younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince's memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe, is sure to capture your heart.

  • Ella Bella Ballerina and a Midsummer Night's Dream
    By James Mayhew

    This is A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn, she says, as she tells the children about the Shakespearean story that inspired Mendelssohn's ballet.

  • Echoes of the Dance
    By Marcia Willett

    Roly Carradine's son Nat, a garden designer with his own secret burden to bear, lives not far away & is plagued by the visits of his mother Monica, Roly's ex-wife.

  • Ballerina Zoe
    By Random House

    Zoe dreams of being a ballerina!

  • Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Life in Dance
    By Christine Gallea-Roy

    They then decided to follow an independent path, and founded and directed a unique ballet company with which they spent 25 years touring throughout the UK, as well as performing in 30 different countries world-wide.Christina's new book, ...

  • Elephants Don't Do Ballet
    By Penny McKinlay

    When Esmeralda the elephant wants to be a ballerina, Mummy's not so sure - after all, elephants don't do ballet. But Esmeralda always gets what she wants, so she joins a ballet class and proves that elephants can do ballet.