![]() ![]() She has to ask herself what she really wants and if it is worth what she is giving up.įlack writes from experience. He’s a musician and a college student, and Hannah can’t help but compare her highly competitive, structured life to his, which seems so free and simple. Things start to change when she meets a guy. That’s what she has always thought, anyway. ![]() Dance is all she knows, and it is all she wants. A world where nineteen-year-old Hannah trains and diets with dedication. Through Hannah’s first-person narration, Flack takes readers into a world most of us have never seen. Me, I’m a dancer in the corps de ballet, just one of the dozens of girls who dance in graceful unison each night.” Their head shots are printed in the program, with their names in large print. They dance center stage under the spotlight, and they get their own curtain calls. ![]() Don’t call me a ballerina.īallerinas are the stars of the company. Those six titles for preschoolers and primary graders showed that anyone can be a dancer, but Bunheads by Sophie Flack takes on the world of dance from an even closer viewpoint. One of the first posts on this blog, back in February, was Tracey’s round-up of ballet picture books. ![]()
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