A gorgeously illustrated story collection, perfect for reading aloud This charming collection of ballet stories has been specially selected and retold for younger children. A delightful way to discover five classic ballets: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker.

Discover all the magic of the ballet with this collection of classic tales and meet enchanted princesses, magical birds, dancing dolls and wicked witches. Travel to a magical kingdom of sweets, twirl at an enchanted fairytale ball, and discover the story of a sleeping princess, woken after 100 years by her true love's kiss. This beautiful gift collection contains six of the best-loved stories from the ballet: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Coppelia and The Firebird. Award-winning storyteller Saviour Pirotta retells the classic tales in an accessible style that's perfect for young children, while New York Times bestselling artist Brigette Barrager's beautiful full-colour illustrations bring each magical scene to life. The perfect gift for little ballet dancers and ballet fans.

This book tells the stories of five of the most well-loved, world famous ballets. It will appeal to lots of children, but especially kids who are interested in ballet and dance, singing, acting, ice skating, or any kind of performing arts. As well as to parents who might want to introduce their child to the cultural and traditional performing arts. These ballet stories are lovely, magical bedtime, or anytime stories for kids, especially if they are interested in ballet, dance, theater and performance, and if they might like to go and see a live ballet. Because ballets have no words, and only use dance music and mime to convey what's happening, without knowing the story beforehand, anyone can become completely lost. So your child will already know the plot of these very famous world famous ballets from these short stories, if they ever watch one online or go to see one of them live (and so will you if you like). Every ballet performance is a different artistic interpretation. We have based these children's stories on the basic and agreed-upon general plots of all these five ballets. Lots of ballets contain tragedy or violence, negative role-modeling, and themes and subjects not suitable for children. So the ballets in these children's short stories are chosen as some of the best ones for children, that they are most likely to love and enjoy. A unique storybook that they will love and that will give them a long term educational life gift as well as entertain. Treat your child to these magical, world famous, classical ballet stories. You can download this ebook, or any of the individual ebook stories, or buy the paperback book version for a gift, which is available for sale worldwide, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, and should be alongside our other books.

This is the second single story from our book: Ballet Stories For Kids: Five of the Most Magical, Well Loved, World Famous Ballets, Specially Chosen and Adapted Into Children's Stories Would you like to know the story of The Nutcracker the ballet? Or buy the paperback book of five famous ballet stories, as a gift for a child you love? Download this ebook or get one of the other stories in the series as an ebook, which are: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, and Don Quixote. The whole book, available in both ebook or paperback, of five of the world's most famous classical ballet stories, makes a lovely read, or gift for kids. It is for sale worldwide, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, and should be found alongside our other books.

Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.

This is the third single story from our book: Ballet Stories For Kids: Five of the Most Magical, Well Loved, World Famous Ballets, Specially Chosen and Adapted Into Children's Stories Would you like to know the story of Coppelia the ballet? Or buy the paperback book of five famous ballet stories, as a gift for a child you love? Download this ebook or get one of the other stories in the series as an ebook, which are: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, and Don Quixote. The whole book, available in both ebook or paperback, of five of the world's most famous classical ballet stories, makes a lovely read, or gift for kids. It is for sale worldwide, in various formats, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, and should be found alongside our other books.

This is the fifth single story from our book: Ballet Stories For Kids: Five of the Most Magical, Well Loved, World Famous Ballets, Specially Chosen and Adapted Into Children's Stories Would you like to know the story of Don Quixote the ballet? Or buy the paperback book of five famous ballet stories, as a gift for a child you love? Download this ebook or get one of the other stories in the series as an ebook, which are: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, and Don Quixote. The whole book, available in both ebook or paperback, of five of the world's most famous classical ballet stories, makes a lovely read, or gift for kids. It is for sale worldwide, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, and should be found alongside our other books.

Children's literature continues to be one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting of interdisciplinary academic studies, of interest to anyone concerned with literature, education, internationalism, childhood or culture in general. The second edition of Peter Hunt's bestselling International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the world, with substantial, accessible, articles by specialists and world-ranking experts. Almost everything is here, from advanced theory to the latest practice – from bibliographical research to working with books and children with special needs. This edition has been expanded and includes over fifty new articles. All of the other articles have been updated, substantially revised or rewritten, or have revised bibliographies. New topics include Postcolonialism, Comparative Studies, Ancient Texts, Contemporary Children's Rhymes and Folklore, Contemporary Comics, War, Horror, Series Fiction, Film, Creative Writing, and 'Crossover' literature. The international section has been expanded to reflect world events, and now includes separate articles on countries such as the Baltic states, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Iran, Korea, Mexico and Central America, Slovenia, and Taiwan.

This is the fourth single story from our book: Ballet Stories For Kids: Five of the Most Magical, Well Loved, World Famous Ballets, Specially Chosen and Adapted Into Children's Stories Would you like to know the story of The Firebird the ballet? Or buy the paperback book of five famous ballet stories, as a gift for a child you love? This Firebird story is very short, only 6 pages long. To avoid disappointment, why not get the proper Ballet Stories For Kids ebook, of all 5 stories instead, for only $1.99. It should be alongside the others in this series. We also have other stories for free, have a look, or you can buy any of the others for only $0.99. Download this ebook or get one of the other stories in the series as an ebook, which are: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Coppelia, The Firebird, and Don Quixote. The whole book, available in both ebook or paperback, of five of the world's most famous classical ballet stories, makes a lovely read, or gift for kids. It is for sale worldwide, at all good bookstores and online marketplaces, in 6 different languages, and should be found alongside our other books.