Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)
Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)

Author: John Robert Allman

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 0593181166

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A lively and encouraging picture book celebrating boys who love to dance, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. Boys who love to dance are center stage in this encouraging, positive, rhyming picture book about guys who love to pirouette, jeté, and plié. Created in partnership with the American Ballet Theatre and with the input of their company's male dancers, here is a book that shows ballet is for everyone. Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, this book subtly seeks to address the prejudice toward boys and ballet by showing the skill, hard work, strength, and smarts is takes to be a dancer. Fun and buoyant illustrations show boys of a variety of ages and ethnicities, making this the ideal book for any boy who loves dance. An afterword with photos and interviews with some of ABT's male dancers completes this empowering and joyful picture book.

Ese, the Little Boy Who Loved to Dance
Ese, the Little Boy Who Loved to Dance

Author: Lydia Akpene Gagoh

Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781622950720

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Follows a young boy who is inspired to dance by everything in the world around him.

Dance Is for Everyone
Dance Is for Everyone

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781454921141

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When an alligator shows up to class one day, Mrs. Iraina and her ballet students are very suprised. But she is able to follow along, so they decide it's okay for her to join. The class starts calling her Tanya and even creates a new dance to showcase her larger-than-life talents and big, swishy tail: "The Legend of the Swamp Queen." Tanya has the starring role.

Let's Dance!
Let's Dance!

Author: Valerie Bolling

Publisher: Thinkingdom

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 1635923638

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This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities tapping, spinning, and boogying away! Tap, twirl, twist, spin! With musical, rhyming text, author Valerie Bolling shines a spotlight on dances from across the globe, while energetic art from Maine Diaz shows off all the moves and the diverse people who do them. From the cha cha of Cuba to the stepping of Ireland, kids will want to leap, dip, and zip along with the dances on the page!

The Boy Who Wanted to be a Dancer
The Boy Who Wanted to be a Dancer

Author: Rod Gambassi

Publisher:

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781889829180

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The story of a boy who listens to his heart. By following his dreams, he inspires others to do the same. --p. [4] of cover.

Merci Suárez Can't Dance
Merci Suárez Can't Dance

Author: Meg Medina

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0763690503

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In Meg Medina's follow-up to her Newbery Medal-winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love--and finding your rhythm.

Boy, Can He Dance!
Boy, Can He Dance!

Author: Eileen Spinelli

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012-05-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442474413

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Boy, Can He Dance! is Eileen Spinelli's story of a young boys dream—and his disapproving father. Tony loves to dance, and he dances everywhere, but Tony's father, the famous chef at the renowned City Hotel, is determined to raise Tony to be a chef.

Jose! Born to Dance
Jose! Born to Dance

Author: Susanna Reich

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 0689865767

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José was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up to love to draw, play the piano, and dream. José's dreaming took him to faraway places. He dreamed of bullfighters and the sounds of the cancan dancers that he saw with his father. Dance lit a fire in José's soul. With his heart to guide him, José left his family and went to New York to dance. He learned to flow and float and fly through space with steps like a Mexican breeze. When José danced, his spirit soared. From New York to lands afar, José Limón became known as the man who gave the world his own kind of dance. ¡OLÉ! ¡OLÉ! ¡OLÉ! Susanna Reich's lyrical text and Raúl Colón's shimmering artwork tell the story of a boy who was determined to make a difference in the world, and did. José! Born to Dance will inspire picture book readers to follow their hearts and live their dreams.

Josephine Wants to Dance
Josephine Wants to Dance

Author: Jackie French

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0007263163

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Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully and Josephine learns that there's another way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ever come true?

Frances Dean who Loved to Dance and Dance
Frances Dean who Loved to Dance and Dance

Author: Birgitta Sif

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0763673064

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The award-winning creator of "Oliver" introduces a little girl who loves to dance. However, if anyone is around to see her, Frances Dean becomes nervous and forgets how to dance. Will she find the courage to share her talent? Full color.