From ballet class to rehearsal for the big show to the final curtsies-budding ballet stars show emergent readers each step and pirouette along the way!

This Step 1 reader has big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm. It's a natural for young readers who are learning ballet or aspire to take ballet classes.

JOAN HOLUB has written and/or illustrated over 70 books for children, including the popular Step into Reading title Shampoodle. You can visit Joan at her website: JoanHolub.com.

SHELAGH MCNICHOLAS has illustrated a number of children's books. She always carries a sketch book in her pocket just in case she sees something inspiring, which happens often in the English countryside where she lives with her daughter and their cat.