To Dance

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Siena Cherson Siegel, Mark Siegel

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
01 November 2019

Dance, ballet (Children's&YA)

A beautifully refreshed and expanded special edition of the Sibert Honor-winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.

Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six-and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance classes at the School of American Ballet, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet while working with ballet legend George Balanchine.

Part family history, part backstage drama, this beautifully updated graphic memoir-which features a refreshed design and a brand-new scrapbook of Siena's mementoes-is an original, firsthand look a young dancer's beginnings.

By: Siena Cherson Siegel
Illustrated by: Mark Siegel
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reissue
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN: 9781481486637
ISBN 10: 1481486632
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 01 November 2019
Recommended Age: From 8 to 14 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Siena Cherson Siegel is an author and former dancer who trained at the School of American Ballet. To Dance and Tiny Dancer are stories from her life. Mark Siegel is the author and illustrator of several award-winning picture books and graphic novels, including Tiny Dancer, To Dance, Moving House, and Sailor Twain. His latest project is the collaborative graphic novel series 5 Worlds, an epic science fiction story for young readers. In addition to writing and illustrating, Mark is also the founder and creative and editorial director of First Second Books, Macmillan's graphic novel house. The Siegels live in Tarrytown, New York. Visit Mark at MarkSiegelBooks.com.

Reviews for To Dance: Special Edition

Even more effectively than the original, this special edition of the 2006 graphic memoir about Cherson Siegel's youth as a School of American Ballet student embodies the paradox of ballet: that every moment of seeming effortlessness on stage is the product of years of grueling work. . . . A spacious redesigned layout heightens the emotional effect and nicely echoes the memoir's closing line: 'Dancing fills a space in me.' -- The Horn Book