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* Robert F. Sibert Award 수상도서
* ALA Notable Children's Books
* Beehive Award Master List (UT)
* Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee (NJ)
* Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ)
* IRA/CBC Children's Choices
* Keystone to Reading Book Award Master List (PA)
* NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year


푸에토리코의 바닷가 마을에서 태어나, 평발의 어려움을 극복하고 각고의 노력으로 미국을 대표하는 발레리나로 성장한 이 책의 저자 Siena Cherson Siegel의 일대기를 그녀의 남편이자 저명한 Illustrator인 Mark Siegel이 만화풍의 그림책으로 만들었습니다.

어린 소녀가 발레리나가 되는 꿈을 갖게 되는 계기, 미국 뉴욕 발레스쿨에 입학, 다양한 발레동작들, 혹독한 훈련과정을 거쳐 링컨센터의 공연무대에 오르기 까지의 과정을 실감나게 보여줍니다.

만화형식으로 만든 Graphic Novel입니다.






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Paperback: 64 pages
ISBN-10: 1416926879
ISBN-13: 978-1416926870
책 크기: 22.8 cm x 15.3 cm



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Book Description
Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet.
Twirl along with Siena as she shares her story in words with pictures by acclaimed illustrator Mark Siegel.


School Library Journal
Siegel leaves her home in Puerto Rico to study at the School of American Ballet where she dances with the New York City Ballet. Her deeply rooted love of dance permeates this touching memoir. The graphic format and her husband's lyrical art bring to life the preparation and dedication required of performers.


Booklist *Starred Review*
A husband and wife team up to provide an insightful, accessible, and aesthetically engaging graphic novel that follows the latter's dance career. Well- proportioned watercolor panels trace Siena Cherson Siegel's involvement with ballet from her introduction to it at the age of six and her training as an adolescent at the School of American Ballet to her leaving professional dance when she reached college and her return to it several years later, "because I still need[ed] to dance." The fully realized account goes beyond the sacrifices and rewards she experienced to other matters, such as the effects of her parents' separation and divorce and her awe of ballet master George Balanchine. As a girl, Siena discovered Jill Krementz's photo-essay A Very Young Dancer (1976), but unlike that portrait of a girl ballerina, this one is in no way glamorized. Mark Siegel's images are often pretty, but like the story his wife tells, they are honest about a ballerina's life. Foot pain, leg injuries, and more are a part of Siena's story, which provides those who hope for or wonder about a career in dancing with a candid view of an individual for whom ballet is essential to a fulfilling life.