Vampirina Ballerina

Oh, to be a ballerina It's a challenge for any little girl, but even more so if you happen to be a vampire like Vampirina. First of all, you have to find a class that meets at night. Then you have to figure out how to perfect your form when you can't see yourself in the mirror? And then there's wearing pink (not the most flattering of colors if you happen to be undead) and that nagging urge to take a little nip out of the other dancers. And worse of all - STAGE FRIGHT


Author: Anne Marie Pace
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: 08/07/2012
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781423157533
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 153451 / Vampirina Ballerina


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 06/11/2012 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2012
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2012 pg. 71
Booklist 09/01/2012 pg. 122
New Yorker (The) 10/14/2012 pg. 17
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Anne Marie Pace (www.annemariepace.com) has had stories, poems, and articles for kids published in such magazines as Highlights for Children, My Friend, Wee Ones, and On the Line. A 2005 Grand Prize winner in the Smartwriters W.I.N. contest as well as a 2009 SCBWI Barbara Karlin Award Letter of Merit recipient, her first picture book, NEVER EVER TALK TO STRANGERS, was published in September 2010 by Scholastic Book clubs.

LeUyen Pham (http: //www.leuyenpham.com/) is the prolific and bestselling illustrator of many books for children, including Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore and God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Pham has also written and illustrated her own works, including All the Things I Love About You and Big Sister, Little Sister. A former animator for Dreamworks, she lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco