angelina's ballet class katharine holabird

Ready to Read titles like Twinkle and the Fairy Cake Mess and Angelina Ballerina and the Tea Party, are colorful and lively, with lots of friendship and humor, and the vocabulary is bright and lively too! I work closely with the talented team at Simon & Schuster, so all the vocabulary is spot on for young readers, with lots of fun illustrations. How do you go about writing for this older age range and choosing which vocabulary you should use in these books?Īngelina and Twinkle are great characters for early readers, and it's been fun creating new stories for young fans who are ready to read by themselves. Q: You have transitioned the Angelina Ballerina stories from picture books into Ready-to-Read early readers.

As for favorite stories, I have many, but Angelina Ballerina was my very first book, and the story that started Angelina's journey, so it has a special place in my heart. Angelina is a wonderful character to write about, she's passionate and determined, loyal and lovable, she's full of flaws but always bounces back. I was thrilled when Angelina Ballerina was published in 1983, but I never imagined she'd become such a favorite with young book lovers around the world! Much credit goes to Helen Craig's magical illustrations that so beautifully capture Angelina and all the charms of Mouseland and Chipping Cheddar. If you had to choose, which would be your favorite one? Q: When you wrote the first Angelina Ballerina picture book back in the 1980s, did you ever expect that the character would still be a comfort and a friend to children so many years later? Angelina has been on so many adventures over the years.

Angelina's ballet class katharine holabird