Boys Dance (American Ballet Theatre)
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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-Z, who danced as a child, 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 showing 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.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Illustrated edition (5 Oct. 2020), Inc. |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 32 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 059318114X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0593181140 |
| Reading age | 3 – 7 years |
| Dimensions | 26.67 x 1.14 x 26.19 cm |
by Margaret K Weller
A lovely book, rare and affirmative in the world of young male dancers.
by Jo
My son absolutely loves this book. We bought it a year ago (he was 4 then) and still read it at leats twice a week. He loves ballet, and this book shows him the ballet is for boys as well. Wish there would be more books like this!
by Alisha W.
What a lovely book for my son that doesnt make ballet seem all girly but also for strong boys 🙂
by iMak
I’m a choreographer and former professional dancer as is my wife and this book was very welcome in our home. It took away already preconceived stigmas about dance in our 3 year old boy who now jumps and turns like a proper Barishnikov!
The multiracial aspect of the characters also was welcome and representative of a changing world.
We love this book!