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Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson

By Leda Schubert, Theodore Taylor III (Illustrator)
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By Leda Schubert, Theodore Taylor III (Illustrator)
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This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wilkinson, the first African American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company and an inspiration to Misty Copeland.

When she was only five years old, her parents took her to see the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Raven perched on her crushed velvet seat, heard the tympani, and cried with delight even before the curtain lifted. From that moment on, her passion for dance only grew stronger.
No black ballerina had ever da...