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Summary
One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out and caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine. She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle. She looked very happy.
At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She has been dancing ever since, and after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Beautifully and gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince’s highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe.
ElaineDePrince
Elaine DePrince (1947-2024) was Michaela DePrince’s adoptive mother and co-author of Michaela’s memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe (and a version for younger readers, Ballerina Dreams). She was the author of Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood, as well as a songwriter and owner of Sweet Mocha Music LLC, an Indie record label and music publishing business. A graduate of Rutgers University…
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MichaelaDePrince
Michaela DePrince (1995-2024) was born in Sierra Leone and adopted by an American family. She graduated from the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York and went on to dance with the Dutch National Ballet and then the Boston Ballet. She starred in the documentary First Position and danced on Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ music video. She was a…
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EllaOkstad
Ella Okstad returned to her native Norway after graduating from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 2000 where she now illustrates children’s books for both Norwegian and British publishers. Squishy is her first imaginary cat.
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We are deeply saddened to learn about the recent passing of Michaela DePrince and her mother, Elaine DePrince. Our thoughts …