Often I choose books others don’t already know so sometimes the obvious titles are skipped.

Thanks Ken for the review!

Yes I have. And when I read BASEBALL BALLERINA it made me angry when the mother forced the title character to take ballet. “My mom thinks baseball is for boys.” she says.

I know a ballet teacher who has a collection of kids ballet books at her studio for kids to read. I gave her a copy of BASEBALL BALLERINA for her collection, but after reading it she rejected it, mainly for these two reasons-The ballet teacher in the book is mean, and would frighten kids from taking ballet because they might think ALL ballet teachers are mean-and, she’s TOTALLY against kids being forced to take ballet. I agree with her.

Plus, it seemed to me the mother is forcing her little girl to do something she wouldn’t be forcing a little boy to do.

THE ONLY BOY IN BALLET CLASS is about Tucker, a boy who loves ballet. But of course, he gets insulted because, “Ballet is for girls!” But he has the last laugh at the end!

When I submitted this book to the ballet teacher she loved it! In fact, she has a boy student who already had the book!

Ken