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    Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova

    By Laurel Snyder and Julie Morstad

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    About this ebook

    The world is big.
    Anna is small.
    The snow is
        everywhere
            and all around.
    But one night . . .
    One night, her mother takes her to the ballet, and everything is changed. Anna finds a beauty inside herself that she cannot contain.

    So begins the journey of a girl who will one day grow up to be the most famous prima ballerina of all time, inspiring legions of dancers after her: the brave, the generous, the transcendently gifted Anna Pavlova. Beautiful, inspirational, and triumphant, Anna Pavlova's life is masterfully captured in this exquisite picture book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateAug 18, 2015
    ISBN9781452153636
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    Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
    Author

    Laurel Snyder

    Laurel Snyder is the beloved author of many picture books and novels for children, including National Book Award nominee Orphan Island, the Geisel Award winner Charlie & Mouse, and the Sydney Taylor Award winner The Longest Night. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program. She lives in Atlanta with her family and can be found online at laurelsnyder.com.

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    • 4/5
      This book is beautiful! The illustrations steal the show, but the text about young Anna working through adversity to get what she wants and then sharing her passion with the world doesn't drag the pictures down at all.
    • 3/5
      The writing and illustrations themselves are evocative of Anna Pavlova herself! Very beautiful and could be a great inspiration for young dancers.
    • 4/5
      American author Laurel Snyder and Canadian illustrator Julie Morstad join forces in this lovely picture-book about Anna Pavlova, the celebrated Russian prima ballerina. Inspired by a trip to the ballet as a young girl, Anna dreams of becoming a dancer herself, always attuned to the music of the world around her. Eventually, after some delay, she does attend ballet school, and quickly rises to become one of the world's most famous dancers...As someone who was familiar with Pavlova's name but not her life story, I picked up Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova with some interest, particularly as I have enjoyed other works illustrated by Morstad. Not unexpectedly, I found it a gorgeous book, visually speaking, and thought the mixed media artwork was superb. The narrative, on the other hand, was less informative, and more impressionistic, telling its subject's story only in the broadest sense, and filling in more details in the afterword. This wasn't entirely satisfactory to me, as I would have preferred a more detailed main narrative, paired with these beautiful illustrations. Tastes vary, of course, so other readers might feel differently, but for me this was stronger visually than textually, and my star rating is more for Morstad than Snyder. Recommended to young ballet dancers and enthusiasts, and to admirers of Julie Morstad's artwork.