Angelina the dancing mouse has been enchanting little ballerinas for 30 years. In this larger format, anniversary paperback picture book, she will inspire a whole new generation.

Angelina wants more than anything else to become a ballerina and dances all the time - even when she's supposed to be doing chores or getting ready for school. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Mouseling, are in despair - but then they think of a plan. They decide it's time for Angelina to go to ballet school! She works hard for years and years until she becomes the famous ballerina, Mademoiselle Angelina!

This wonderful story - a firm favourite of little girls - has captured the hearts and minds of toddler after toddler and has already become a classic, spawning a whole library of Angelina books as well as a television series and even a musical. This new, bigger, book only underlines the incredible importance of Angelina Ballerina and celebrates her thirtieth birthday.

This book is part of a book series called Angelina Ballerina .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Katharine Holabird is a freelance writer who first worked as a journalist and has been writing children's books since 1982. She was born in the USA but has lived in London for many years. Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children, including the Angelina Ballerina books. She lives in England.