Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007263163
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully and Josephine learns that there's another way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ever come true?
Josephine Wants to Dance
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007263163
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully and Josephine learns that there's another way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ever come true?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007263163
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Josephine loves to dance. The emus show her how to point her toes. The eagles teach her how to soar to the music of the wind. Then the ballet comes to the sleepy town of Shaggy Gully and Josephine learns that there's another way to dance. This is how Josephine wants to dance, but will her dream ever come true?
Jazz Age Josephine
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442447109
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442447109
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.
Brontorina
Author: James Howe
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763644374
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763644374
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B
Author: Sandra Gulland
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 0684856069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 0684856069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Passion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France. In this first of three books inspired by the life of Josephine Bonaparte, Sandra Gulland has created a novel of immense and magical proportions. We meet Josephine in the exotic and lush Martinico, where an old island woman predicts that one day she will be queen. The journey from the remote village of her birth to the height of European elegance is long, but Josephine's fortune proves to be true. By way of fictionalized diary entries, we traverse her early years as she marries her one true love, bears his children, and is left betrayed, widowed, and penniless. It is Josephine's extraordinary charm, cunning, and will to survive that catapults her to the heart of society, where she meets Napoleon, whose destiny will prove to be irrevocably intertwined with hers.
The Dancing Tiger
Author: Malachy Doyle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857076353
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This magical, tender tale about a girl, a tiger and a great-grandmother is a joyous dance through the changing seasons. From the moment the book is opened, we are invited into woodland suffused with moonlight and, as the tiger's story is revealed in all its beautiful simplicity, we are left pondering the power of the imagination, the importance of self-expression and the special nature of a relationship across the generations.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857076353
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
This magical, tender tale about a girl, a tiger and a great-grandmother is a joyous dance through the changing seasons. From the moment the book is opened, we are invited into woodland suffused with moonlight and, as the tiger's story is revealed in all its beautiful simplicity, we are left pondering the power of the imagination, the importance of self-expression and the special nature of a relationship across the generations.
Pete the Sheep
Author: Bruce Whatley
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730443795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
There's no cutting corners on this durable edition featuring Pete and other favourite friends at Sean's Sheep Salon. the award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book.Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous.Jackie and Bruce have created the perfect combination of words and illustrations in this irreverent look at the world of sheep shearing.Ages 4-9
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 0730443795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
There's no cutting corners on this durable edition featuring Pete and other favourite friends at Sean's Sheep Salon. the award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book.Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous.Jackie and Bruce have created the perfect combination of words and illustrations in this irreverent look at the world of sheep shearing.Ages 4-9
Josephine
Author: Jean-Claude Baker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815411723
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815411723
Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
The Seeing Stick
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 9780762420483
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The same story that captivated readers in 1977 is back in a stunning new edition! Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since birth. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one from magicians to physicians can help her. Then, one day a wise old man with a mysterious seeing stick visits the princess. Will he be able to teach Hwei Min that there is more than one way to see the world?
Publisher: Running Press Kids
ISBN: 9780762420483
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The same story that captivated readers in 1977 is back in a stunning new edition! Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since birth. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one from magicians to physicians can help her. Then, one day a wise old man with a mysterious seeing stick visits the princess. Will he be able to teach Hwei Min that there is more than one way to see the world?
10 Ballet Dancers
Author: Amanda Malek-Ahmadi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947408241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
It's a special day. The children practice their ballet. But something is odd. Let's count down from 10 to 1 to find the surprise before the class is done.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947408241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
It's a special day. The children practice their ballet. But something is odd. Let's count down from 10 to 1 to find the surprise before the class is done.
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
Author: Carol Diggory Shields
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763638870
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When it is rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763638870
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
When it is rock 'n' roll time during the prehistoric era, many different kinds of dinosaurs gather to twist, twirl, and tromp at a Saturday night party.