At the age of three, in an orphanage in Sierra Leone, Michaela DePrince found a photograph that would change her life. 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. Soon adopted and brought to America, Michaela never forgot that image of a dancer, and set out to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She’s been dancing ever since – after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, she 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.
ISBN 13: 9780571329731
Author: Michaela DePrince
