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Gr. 3-5, younger for reading aloud. These attractive books from The Magic of Ballet series tell the stories of major ballets. Each volume features fairly large type, decorative borders, and Emma Chichester Clark's richly atmospheric paintings. An appendix in each book traces the ballet's history, music, choreography, and related matters such as dance notations. Swan Lake is a difficult undertaking with its darker, adult story and tragic ending. Geras makes the ballet more understandable to those who aren't familiar with it, but the story loses a great deal in translation from stage to page. Stripped of the emotional content of music, gesture, and dance as well as costume and staging, this moving ballet becomes comparatively uninvolving. Still, with a bit more text than typical picture-book retellings, all the volumes in this series will be helpful to middle-graders attending a ballet performance. Carolyn Phelan
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