Ballerina Dreams

BALLERINA DREAMS A True Story. By Lauren Thompson. Photographs by James Estrin. Feiwel & Friends/Holtzbrinck. $16.95. (Ages 5 to 8)
This portrait of five girls “who dreamed of being ballerinas” depicts the challenges of an unusual ballet class in Queens. The director, Joann Ferrara, runs the class for children with cerebral palsy and other disorders, and Estrin (a staff photographer for The New York Times) documented the class as the girls prepared for their first recital — tutus, tiaras and all. The simple text fills out the background of the class, and the pictures convey the girls’ progress and delight.



Fonte: http://www.nytimes.com/