Angelina Ballerina Loves the Library: Ready-to-Read Level 1

by Katharine Holabird, Helen Craig (Illustrator)

Overview

Visit the library with Angelina Ballerina in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read—as she chooses books to check out for the first time!

Angelina is excited to get a library card from the Chipping Cheddar Library. There are so many books she wants to read. Then she finds out she can only check out five books at a time! What will Angelina do? She will find a way...and learn all kinds of things from the books she reads!

©2021 Helen Craig Ltd. and Katharine Holabird. The Angelina Ballerina name and character and the dancing Angelina logo are trademarks of HIT Entertainment Limited, Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534498204
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	12/14/2021
Series:	Angelina Ballerina Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	42,610
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Katharine Holabird grew up in a family of architects and artists in Chicago. As a child, she lived in an imaginary world of fairy tales, princesses, and ballerinas, and loved to perform and dance with her sisters. She wrote the first Angelina Ballerina at the kitchen table with her daughters twirling around her. Katharine has three grown children and three grandchildren, and now lives in New York City with her husband.

Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children, including the Angelina Ballerina books. She lives in England.

Editorial Reviews

01/07/2022

K-Gr 2—Angelina returns with the seventh in a series of early readers based on the original picture books. The ballet-obsessed mouse can't wait to check out "more and more" books when she visits the Chipping Cheddar library, but the librarian explains that she can only borrow five at a time. After making her selection, Angelina returns home to share the bounty with delighted friends and family. Then she's back to the library for a second round! Despite the book's being described as a "level one reader," newly minted readers may have a hard time navigating overly wordy sentences containing few contextual clues and some hard-to-decode, three-syllable words. The plot lacks zip, but interesting details abound in the delicate and familiar ink and watercolor style illustrations of a quaint English village populated by adorable mice. The updated story still adheres completely to the traditional gender roles of the original, with Angelina's mom in the kitchen, dad in a comfortable chair reading the newspaper, and a female ballet teacher and librarian. VERDICT Nostalgic fans may jump at the opportunity to introduce new readers to the denizens of Chipping Cheddar, but the story's structure presents some challenges. For those in need of an Angelina fix, recommend the originals instead.—Jenny Andrus

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