Amy Young (1)

You can't tell by the cover, but this book features a talented young Black ballerina named Camille who inspires Belinda to learn to dance. My four-year-old loves ballet books and it's been a bit of a challenge to find good ones with diverse ballet dancers. (I'm talking all kind of diversity - gender, race, body type, etc.) Most of the ballet picture books she picks out at the library are about animals or slim white girls.

There's a mean teacher in this one who for some reason really wants Belinda to be a clown in a talent show. I guess she thinks people with big feet must be clowns? Explaining this lady's clown obsession would be a whole other book. The upshot is that Belinda learns to follow her passion instead of following the directions of a bullying teacher.… (altro)