James MayhewElla Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake: A Ballerina Book for Toddlers and Girls 4-8 (Christmas, Easter, and Birthday Gifts!) (Ella Bella Ballerina Series)

The book is a short adaption of the original story, framed with Ella Bella’s story. Makes a good gift.

My granddaughter loved the book . Good story & illustrations

So now my 5 year old has 4 of this Ella Bella Ballerina series. We now have the gist of how these books go. Ella is in class, Madame Rosa says its time to go home, or go elsewhere and Ella's curiosity always takes her back to enchanted music box. Ella's imagination takes us to the classic story & she in turn helps the character finding her prince and so on. My daughter loves them. The illustrations are beautiful and the story themselves are charming. I would recommend any of these by James Mayhew.

My 3 year old daughter LOVES ballet, and this book is a great introduction to Swan Lake. In the end, Odette and the prince live happily ever after, instead of committing suicide together (as is the case in the Swan Lake book by Margot Fonteyn, which is also very good.). It's very light and child-friendly - perfect for a young ballerina!We love ALL of the books we have by James Mayhew (his Katie books are fantastic!). I read that he enjoys opera, and I hope one day he does some children's books of opera stories (my preschooler also loves opera).But, back to Swan Lake... this book would be great for any young ballerina. I highly recommend it!

Very pretty book. Christmas present for my grand daughter who is into ballet. I'm planning on buying the other Ella books. Thank you!

I use this for ages 6-8 fir Storybook Ballet. Engaging, nicely written and illustrated.

My daughter loves ballet so I thought this would be a good introduction since other Swan Lake books are a little too advanced. She is four and this story was able to hold her short attention pretty well. The illustrations are so cute too.

I bought this book for my 3 1/2 year old daughter as she was starting ballet classes. I think it really helped spark her interest in ballet. After reading this book several times, I decided to let her watch parts of the ballet on TV. She clearly learned from the Ella Bella book because she was very interested in the actual ballet and asking questions about the ballerinas on TV “which one is Odette?” I am definitely going to add another Ella Bella book to her collection in the near future...I’m thinking the Nutcracker!