Nina, Nina Ballerina (All Aboard Reading)

By Jane O'Connor

Book Overview

It's the big dance show! Nina is a butterfly. She has pretty wings and a bug mask. But she is not the only one! There are lots of butterflies. How will her mom know which one is Nina? Read this funny... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0439617162
• ISBN13: 9780439617161
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is great for young kids

I like this book because I wanted to be a ballerina. It told me what ballerina's do and how they dress, and what types of dancing they can do.

Nina Is Awesome

I found this to be a great book for any dancer or child that feel that they are not as good or won't shine as much as someone else might. Nina felt that her mother wouldn't notice her on stage that she would blend in with the other children. The book teaches us to do our personal best and we will all shine to whomever is watching us!!!!!

A Ballerina Star!

This is a wonderful book for any child who feels they just blend in,either in dance or life itself. It teaches them that when you do your best, you will be noticed for what you can do. Your personal best will let you shine to those who love you. Never let other people intimidate you.

One of my 3yo daughter's favorite books!

By coincidence, my daughter was taking this book everywhere when she broke her own arm. She'd learned to read it about 2 weeks before her own fall in the park (just like Nina without the ballet moves!). Ms. O'Connor and Ms. Disalvo-Ryan include enough small incidental details about fractures to make the whole process of "arm-repair" unthreatening to my small child. Xrays, cast, Nina in pain in the park and on the examination table all comforted my daughter during her ordeal. And those incidental details never detract from the whole finely told and entertaining tale. As in all 3 of the Nina books, the emotions of the heroine (feelings common to most young children) are finely illustrated and carefully explored and resolved. Thank you Jane and Dyanne!

great book for young dancers and performers

This is a wonderful book for any young dancer or performer feeling too much a part of the crowd. Nina is a young ballerina who although might not be the best in the class has her whole heart in it. She's worried that her mother won't be able to recognise her in the show at the end of the year and is disappointed when she does not get the role of the queen butterfly, who wears a crown and is easily distinguished from the other dancers. As the recital draws nearer, Nina is more and more worried about not being seen. But an accident in which she breaks her arm saves the day: she has to dance with a cast, making her clearly visible and distinguishable to her mother. A great book for any young performer. I've remembered it ever since I read it quite a while back when I was just starting ballet. I'd strongly recommend it. :o)