Ballet Stars (Step into Reading, Step 1)

From ballet class to rehearsal for the big show to the final curtsies—budding ballet stars show emergent readers each step and pirouette along the way!

This Step 1 reader has big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm. It's a natural for young readers who are learning ballet or aspire to take ballet classes.

JOAN HOLUB has written and/or illustrated over 130 books for children, including the popular Step into Reading title Shampoodle and other easy reader series such as Ant Hill (Aladdin) and the Why Do Dogs Bark? series (Penguin Young Readers). She is also co-author (with Suzanne Williams) of the Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain series (Aladdin, ages 8-12) and the Heroes in Training: Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom series (Aladdin, ages 7-11).

SHELAGH MCNICHOLAS has illustrated a number of children's books. She always carries a sketch book in her pocket just in case she sees something inspiring, which happens often in the English countryside where she lives with her daughter and their cat.