Angelina's Big City Ballet

by Katharine Holabird, Helen Craig (Illustrator)

Overview

The classic bestselling Angelina Ballerina picture book about Angelina’s trip to the big city is back in a beautiful, refreshed hardcover edition!

For the first time ever, Angelina Ballerina is visiting the most famous city in Mouseland: the Big Cheese! She can’t wait to explore the city and perform her fairy ballet. But her cousin Jeanie tells Angelina that tap dancing is much better than ballet. Can the two girls overcome their differences and learn to work together in time for the big show?

© 2023 Helen Craig Ltd and Katharine Holabird. The Angelina Ballerina name and character and the dancing Angelina logo are trademarks of HIT Entertainment Limited, Katharine Holabird, and Helen Craig.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665947572
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	12/12/2023
Series:	Angelina Ballerina Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Katharine Holabird grew up in a family of architects and artists in Chicago. As a child, she lived in an imaginary world of fairy tales, princesses, and ballerinas, and loved to perform and dance with her sisters. She wrote the first Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters twirling around her. Katharine has three grown children and three grandchildren, and now lives in New York City with her husband.

Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children, including the Angelina Ballerina books. She lives in England.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Angelina's Big City Ballet:

"Holabird once again gives readers a gentle story, here one of childhood conflict resolution, while Craig’s delicately colored pen-and-ink illustrations are a pretty accompaniment. Fans of Angelina and dance will enjoy this very sweet story."—Kirkus Reviews

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Angelina's Big City Ballet:

"Holabird once again gives readers a gentle story, here one of childhood conflict resolution, while Craig’s delicately colored pen-and-ink illustrations are a pretty accompaniment. Fans of Angelina and dance will enjoy this very sweet story."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2014-08-27
The ever popular mouse ballerina returns for her multi-eth adventure. She sails into the Big Cheese, otherwise known as the Big Apple, on a grand ocean liner, with a mouse Statue of Liberty providing a welcome. Also on hand are her aunt and cousin Jeanie, as well as checkered yellow taxicabs from a bygone time. Angelina experiences her first apartment house and elevator, tours the Empire Cheddar Building and sees a Broadway performance of River Mouse. She has come to the city to perform in the Big Cheese Dance Show with her cousin, but there may be a problem. Angelina, of course, plans to dance a ballet, but her cousin is going to perform a tap dance because "[i]t's much better than ballet." Angelina, beset by doubts, practices her routine in the apartment by the light of the moon. Watching her dance, her cousin has a change of heart, and the two mouselings choreograph a combined ballet/tap duet. Adorned in lovely new Roaring '20s costumes, they are a success. Holabird once again gives readers a gentle story, here one of childhood conflict resolution, while Craig's delicately colored pen-and-ink illustrations are a pretty accompaniment. Fans of Angelina and dance will enjoy this very sweet story. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews