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Text and photographs present the activities at a ballet studio where young children warm up, practice the five basic positions, exercise at the barre, and watch teenage ballet dancers perform.

Mia the kitten is so excited about her first day of ballet class that she accidentally brings her big sister's tutu instead of her own.

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

Introduces ballet and the training of a dancer, and follows a typical professional dancer from a morning class through rehearsals and preparations for going on stage to an evening performance.

Kepley, a young ballerina, gets to play a flower doll in a professional production of "The Nutcracker."

"An alligator dancing ballet? When the reptile takes her place at the barre, Mrs. Iraina and her dancers are very surprised. But since they can't communicate with the alligator--and she is able to follow along--they just decide to name her Tanya and let her stay. (Would YOU say no to a 450-pound alligator?) Mrs. Iraina even creates a special ballet to showcase Tanya's larger-than-life talents ... and super-swishy tail. Then, without warning, Tanya...

After ballet class, Ella Bella listens to the music from the Cinderella ballet and is transported into the story.

Bea and her friends have fun attending a toddler ballet class.

When Angelina wants to audition for the Mousnikov Ballet, she tries to learn to dance in toe shoes before she's ready.

Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class.