From the Publisher: A New Classic for Today's Dancer. The Ballet Companion is a fresh, comprehensive, and thoroughly up-to-date reference book for the dancer. With 150 stunning photographs of ballet stars Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, this elegant volume brims with everything today's dance student needs, including: Practical advice for getting started, such as selecting a school, making...

When an alligator joins their dance class, an astonished Mrs. Iraina and her students decide to create a special ballet to showcase the alligator's larger-than-life talents.

"Bea and her friends have fun attending a toddler ballet class"--Provided by publisher.

Sophie the swan joins a ballet class and works hard to earn a part in the end-of-year performance of Swan Lake.

Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy.

Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

Having learned to dance as a group and with a boy, the ballerinas at Miss Lina's school face their biggest challenge yet in a production of Sleeping Beauty, which is complicated by Regina's disappointment about her role.

Being cast as Clara in the Nutcracker ballet is a dream come true for Georgie but when she finds herself sucked into the Nutcracker's world her dream becomes more real than she ever imagined.

Excited to have a first boy student joining their ranks, the young ballerinas at Miss Lina's dancing school look forward to having someone to play the role of the prince in their recitals.