# Ballerina Dreams

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- Authors: [Michaela DePrince](https://www.bookquiver.com/michaela-deprince)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2017-04-06
- Genres: Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage: General interest

## Description

One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out and caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine. She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle. She looked very happy. At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She has been dancing ever since, and after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. Beautifully and gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince''s highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe.

## Editions

### Ballerina Dreams

- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7132-973-1
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2017-04-06
- Language: en_US