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Genre/Form: | Fiction History Juvenile works Picture books for children Juvenile fiction |
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Named Person: | Janet Collins; Janet Collins; Janet Collins; Janet Collins |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristy/ Cooper Floyd Dempsey (ILT) |
ISBN: | 0399252843 : HRD 9780399252846 : HRD |
OCLC Number: | 869261321 |
Awards: | Winner of Golden Kite (Picture Book Text) 2015 Short-listed for Monarch Award 2016 |
Description: | 32 pages |
Abstract:
A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
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