Brown girls do ballet : celebrating diverse girls taking center stage

Brown girls do ballet Celebrating diverse girls taking center stage

TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian

Book - 2024

"From the photograph of the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet and the author of The Color of Dance (BDL, Sept. 2023) comes this stunning nonfiction photographic book for kids ages 4-8 that empowers all children to express their true selves through movement and celebrate who they are while shining a light on dancers who have been underrepresented for too long"--

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Children's Room New Shelf j792.8/Wallace-McMillian (NEW SHELF) Due Jul 1, 2025
Subjects
Ballet > Juvenile literature.
African American ballerinas > Juvenile literature.
Ballet > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Published
New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian (author)
Other Authors
JaNay Brown-Wood (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Audience
Ages 4-8
ISBN
9780762487592
Contents unavailable.
Review by Horn Book Review

Words by JaNay Brown-Wood. "Brown girl, / you were born to take that stage." Wallace-McMillian's stunning photography, primarily of Black ballerinas, is paired with empowering poetry by Brown-Wood in this celebration of dancers of color in ballet, an art form that remains primarily white. The photographs include a nice mix of experienced dancers en pointe and those just starting out. The dancers appear to range in age from toddlers to tweens. Various skin tones are represented, and one dancer uses a wheelchair. (c) Copyright 2025. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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