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Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlov by Laurel Snyder

By Priscila Barros, Editor-in-Chief 1 Comment

Storykins // Swan by Laurel Snyder (Author), Julie Morstad (Illustrator), Irene Kim (photography)

Storykins // Swan by Laurel Snyder (Author), Julie Morstad (Illustrator), Irene Kim (photography)

Storykins // Swan by Laurel Snyder (Author), Julie Morstad (Illustrator), Irene Kim (photography)

Storykins // Swan by Laurel Snyder (Author), Julie Morstad (Illustrator), Irene Kim (photography)Photography Irene Kim and published by Chronicle Books

When you pull open the pages of this book, you’ll pull back the curtain of time. You’ll be swept back through to the icy snowflakes and stone streets of Old Russia, where little Anna Pavlova heard the music of Tchaikovsky for the first time. The music filled her, its swells and pauses and staccato notes becoming the rhythm to which she moved, and danced, and worked long hours as a laundress. But somewhere, somehow, between the icy winters and the endless laundry and the music inside her, Anna become the Swan, the dancer, the heroine, the one who gave beauty to the people…the one some say is the most famous ballerina of all time.

“This book was about Anna. It was cold where she lived. She walked into the snow. She walked into the sun. She was a girl who danced on the stage in the dark. A ballerina dancer. She pretended to be a bird. People felt happy. She got flowers and throwed them back to the people.” -Aveline, age 4

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Filed Under: Fun Tagged With: Babiekins, books for the kiddos, chronicle books, kid books, storykins, swan Posted By: Priscila Barros, Editor-in-Chief


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