Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy Cover:Hardcover Filled with busy stores and

Filled with busy stores and happy families

A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019

yet each began life as a child with a dream

and a way to finally reach his distant father—by speaking the language of music instead of the language of sports

Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy Cover:Hardcover Filled with busy stores andFrom New York Times bestselling and award winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes an illustrated nonfiction collection celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didnt have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a black ballerina on a magazine cover for