Dogs Don't Do Ballet
by
Anna Kemp
Illustrated by Sara Ogilvie
Everyone knows that dogs don’t do ballet, except for one little girl in Miss Polly’s ballet class.
This little girl has a sneaking suspicion that her dog is actually a prima ballerina. Biff just isn’t interested in fetching a stick because he is too busy staring longingly at her tutu.
It all comes to a head one day when Biff attempts to sneak into Miss Polly’s ballet class and faces a humiliating dismissal.
After that Biff won’t even eat his doggie-donuts and retreats to his kennel to howl at the moon. A catastrophe at the Royal Ballet gives Biff the chance to truly shine and to prove that perhaps dogs do, do ballet after all!
This hilarious and beautifully illustrated book will have young readers giggling time and time again.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Books
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Anna Kemp
Anna Kemp grew up in a street with a gang of kids and spent her childhood sticker-swapping, playing Pacman and co-ordinating BMX displays. Later, she went to Oxford University to study French and Italian, and has gained a PhD in French Women’s Writing from King’s College, London. The Worst Princess is Anna’s third picture book for Simon and Schuster, her first two being Dogs Don’t Do Ballet and Rhinos Don’t Eat Pancakes, she is also the author of young fiction title Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-drain Machine.
http://authors.simonandschuster.co.uk/Anna-Kemp/66825306
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Sara Ogilvie
Sara Ogilvie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She studied Illustration and Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art. Since graduating, she has continued to create and develop work which has been exhibited, and has won prizes, both in the UK and abroad. Sara was named one of Booktrust’s Best New Illustrators in 2011. The Worst Princess is her third book for Simon and Schuster, and her third collaboration with Anna Kemp, following on from Dogs Don’t Do Ballet and Rhinos Don’t Eat Pancakes.
http://www.saraogilvie.com/
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