This is an all-in-one journal for all your little girl's ballet needs. Various key ballet positions were illustrated throughout the book. The book also included sections fro hair and makeup. A must-have for all budding ballerina out there.

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A beautiful, sweet and extremely girly journal.

As a former ballerina myself i appreciate books that help you keep your schedule intact.

The interface is very cute and appeals to all ages. I really loved it.

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BOOK

- At the end there is a glossary with all the ballet terms.
- It helps trackig your progress.
- There are even some tips and pointers.

As the title says, this is a journal and not a story book. It enables the user to record information over a year about their ballet class, friends, dress codes, ballet positions as well as giving reminders on different aspects of ballet - steps, moves, ways to stretch and the like. It also has space to record most embarrassing moments, dance roles, make up used and performances. Additionally there is a dictionary of Ballet terms. This could easily become a keepsake to remember key moments in that young ballerina’s year.

What a fantastic book for any ballet dancing young ladies (sorry, not really appropriate for boy ballet dancers as all illustrations are of girls - unless they like wearing leotards, their hair in a bun, tiaras, etc though much of the rest would be fine for either gender)! It is a great guide to new ballet dancers, offering tips and guidance. It is also a colouring book enabling the user to totally personalise their journal by both their art work and their entries. It could easily be used to record progress throughout its use. Sad it doesn't do more to promote positive images of boys who may also appreciate the opportunity to keep a journal like this.

This journal is prefect for little ballerinas! This allows girls to track their progress through lessons and so much more!

I liked this book, but I didn't love it. Like 'All About Marvelous Me!', 'My Ballet Journal' is one that children can fill out as a way of documenting where they are at this point in their life. As the name suggests, however, 'My Ballet Journal' is specifically targeted to little girls who do ballet.

While this is a cute book that would be fun for children to look back upon years later, I do have a few problems with it. Firstly, it called itself "My Ballet Journal" but it should really be called "A Ballet Journal for Little Girls that are Very Serious about Ballet." Why is this? There are a couple reasons.

1) This book is targeted specifically at girls.
While females are the majority of the people that do ballet, especially at a young age, there are still boys that dance ballet as well. This book is not geared towards them, talking exclusively about tutus and lipstick and what-not.

2) Things mentioned in this book are not things the casual ballet class addresses This book is geared towards girls who dance ballet on point and go to dance schools that do productions like "Swan Lake."

Despite my criticism, there are things I like about this book. In addition to the time capsule quality of it, it also doubles as book about ballet. It gives definitions and examples. The ten-year-old in me that had been doing ballet since I was three would have loved that aspect of this book, although she would have felt very ostracized and inadequate about the large part of the book that I was unable to relate to, despite the fact that I considered myself a ballet dancer and had been doing it for years.

All-in-all I liked this book, but would consider very carefully the person I was gifting it to before deciding whether to buy it.