Going to My Ballet Class

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-- Jami attends beginning ballet class (or pre-ballet, as it is called here) at the Joffrey Ballet School. The material covered is very much like that in Sorine's Our Ballet Class (Knopf, 1981). However, Sorine's book has black-and-white photographs of a class full of all-white girls, while Kuklin's full-color photographs show girls from the major ethnic groups and a little boy. The text is adequate and gets its point across clearly, but the book does not expand on materials currently available. It should be purchased as a supplement to Our Ballet Class and Rachael Isadora's My Ballet Class (Greenwillow, 1980). --Kay McPherson, Central Atlanta-Fulton Pub . Lib .