Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre)

Author John Robert Allman Illustrated by Luciano Lozano

Grades Preschool - 2 Ages 3-7

A lively and encouraging picture book celebrating boys who love to dance, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre.

Boys who love to dance are center stage in this encouraging, positive, rhyming picture book about guys who love to pirouette, jeté, and plié. Created in partnership with the American Ballet Theatre and with the input of their company's male dancers, here is a book that shows ballet is for everyone.

Written by the acclaimed author of A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z, this book subtly seeks to address the prejudice toward boys and ballet by showing the skill, hard work, strength, and smarts is takes to be a dancer. Fun and buoyant illustrations show boys of a variety of ages and ethnicities, making this the ideal book for any boy who loves dance. An afterword with photos and interviews with some of ABT's male dancers completes this empowering and joyful picture book.

Available Formats

Hardcover 9780593181140
eBook 9780593181164

State Awards

Pennsylvania

2022-2023, Pennsylvania Young Readers’ Choice Award, Nominee

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