The Girl Who Wanted to Dance

(Hardback)

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A dancer's passion and a family's love collide in this beautiful and compelling picture book. When Clara's beloved grandmother dies, her father withdraws from the world into the tall house on the square, where he imposes a reign of silence and forbids his daughter from dancing, the thing she most loves in the world. Clara longs to leave her sombre, silent home, and one evening when a dance troupe performs in the square, she escapes to join the dancers. But Clara's desire to dance at all costs leads her to make an extraordinary discovery - she is not the first woman in her family to choose dancing over the people she loves...

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"* "Ehrlich is a gifted writer who creates prose that her readers are expected to consider. Just as there are no simple solutions in life, so are they absent from her stories, and yet she manages to infuse her writing with a glimmer of hope, a chance for salvation." Write Away"

Author Bio

Amy Ehrlich is a children's book editor and the author of more than thirty books for young readers. She is a winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for her novel Joyride, which was also chosen as Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade in the US. She lives on a farm in Northern Vermont with her husband and a great many domestic and agricultural animals. Rebecca Walsh graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in illustration. She is best known for her illustrations of How the Tiny People Grew Tall by Nancy Wood.