Outstanding colour illustrations complement the text in this book which brings together favourite classi c ballets such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and also intr oduces children to less well known ones. '

 

There are 80 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1997 by Pan Macmillan .

Antonia Barber's The Ghosts was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden . The Mousehole Cat was a finalist for the Smarties Prize, winner of the 1990 British Book Award and Commended for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal; it was later made into an animated film. In 1993 Tales from Grimm was selected for Child Education Best Collections of the Year.