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The Girl Who Wanted To Dance
By Amy Ehrlich
Illustrated by Rebecca Walsh
A dancer's passion and a family's love collide in this beautiful and compelling picture book.
Clara longs to leave her sombre, silent home, and one evening when a dance troupe performs in the square, she escapes to join the dancers. But Clara’s desire to dance at all costs leads her to make an extraordinary discovery -- she is not the first woman in her family to choose dancing over the people she loves.
- "Ehrlich is a gifted writer who creates prose that her readers are expected to consider. Just as there are no simple solutions in life, so are they absent from her stories, and yet she manages to infuse her writing with a glimmer of hope, a chance for salvation." Write Away.
About the author
Amy Ehrlich is a winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for her novel "Joyride", which was also chosen as Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade in the US.
About the illustrator
Rebecca Walsh is best known for her illustrations of "How the Tiny People Grew Tall" by Nancy Wood.
ISBN:
9780763613457
Imprint:
Candlewick Press
Distributor:
TL Distribution in Australia & Macmillan Publishers in New Zealand
Binding:
Hardback
Release Date:
March 1, 2009
Dimensions:
270 x 250mm, 40pp
Stock Status:
Not Yet Published
Australian RRP:
$27.95
New Zealand RRP:
$29.99
Stock Level:
NYP