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Issue: To Dance #[nn]
Publication Date: September 2006
 
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Publisher: FlagSimon and Schuster
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN: 97806898674770689867476
UPC/EAN: 9780689867477
Price: $24.95 CAD
$17.95 USD
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Content Items: 30 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Publication date from Amazon; book does not contain a publication date. Text and illustrations (c) 2006. Published simultaneously in hardcover by Atheneum and in paperback by Aladdin. "The illustrations for this book are rendered in watercolor and ink." Honor book for the 2007 Robert F. Sibert International Award to the most distinguished informational book published in English in the United States during the previous year.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: 9.1" x 6.1"
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Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Maya Plisetskaya
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Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
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Character(s): Siena Cherson
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First Line: To Mom, for supporting my passion, and To Mark, for helping me tell it.
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Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Character(s): Siena Cherson
First Line: To Dance
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Flat Feet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; mother; doctor
Synopsis: Six-year old Siena is diagnosed with flat feet. The doctor says that dance classes won't help, but Siena and her mother decide to try anyway. Siena loves it.
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Dying Swan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Mrs. Alcalde; Maya Plisetskaya
Synopsis: When Siena is nine, the family spends a year in Boston so that she can take classes there. On seeing Maya Plisetskaya dance in the Bolshoi production of Swan Lake, Siena is consumed with passion to become a ballerina.
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Tiny Dancer

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson
Synopsis: With the family again in Puerto Rico, Siena dances in The Nutcracker. She then attends the exhausting American Ballet Theatre summer program in New York City.
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A Favorite Book

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson
Synopsis: Again and again Siena pores over the book A Very Young Dancer, even reading it by flashlight in the blackout of 1977.
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Bare Legs

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson
Synopsis: Siena sees a movie, The Children Of Theatre Street, about Russian children training as dancers, and longs to join them in Russia. At age 11 she reports to the School of American Ballet to audition.
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Audition

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; pianist; Madame Tumkovsky
Synopsis: Siena auditions and is accepted at the School of American Ballet. The family moves to New York for her schooling, but the father remains in Puerto Rico.
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The School of American Ballet

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; George Balanchine; teachers; dancers
Synopsis: Several days weekly after school Siena walks to the School of American Ballet. Once through the doors the world seems separate from New York, and even from Juilliard. An additional level of this other-ness is the fact that most of the conversation among teachers and administrators is in Russian.
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My First Toe Shoes

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Madame Tumkovsky; Judy Weiss; mother; father
Synopsis: Siena pursues rigorous training and is fitted for her first toe shoes, which feel agonizing with endless practice. Her father installs a barre and a mirror in Siena's room.
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Pierrette

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; George Balanchine; Mikhail Baryshnikov
Synopsis: Balanchine repeatedly casts Siena for children's parts in his ballets. When Baryshnikov joins the New York City Ballet Balanchine revives Harlequinade for him. He casts Siena as a Pierrette, and Harlequinade becomes her favorite piece.
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Backstage!

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
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Inker(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Mikhail Baryshnikov; dancers
Synopsis: After extensive rehearsals, the company opens at Lincoln Center.
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Mister B.

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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; George Balanchine; Suzanne Farrell; mother
Synopsis: During performances, when she is not on stage, Siena watches from the front wing stage left, even as Balanchine watches from the right.
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Back to the Barre

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; dancers
Synopsis: After performances the dancers re-enter their own world, including the exhausting school exercises.
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Sir Duke

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Adam Cherson; mother; father
Synopsis: Siena endures her parents' quarreling as it becomes worse and worse. She delights in her brother's visits from boarding school. He uses drums to teach her to simultaneously do different things with each hand, and they listed to music to avoid the shouting.
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A Trip to Florida

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Adam Cherson; father
Synopsis: Siena's lessons intensify. As she enjoys a Florida vacation with her father and brother, she sees a Miami Dolphins football game as a form of ballet.
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Dancing Spirits

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Fred Astaire (cameo); Cyd Charisse (cameo); Gene Kelly (cameo)
Synopsis: Siena devours every form of dance, in any format she can find it. Her feet are no longer flat.
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Springtime in Central Park

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; teenagers
Synopsis: On Sundays Siena rides her bike in Central Park, meets up with her friends, and for one day a week does the things that ordinary teenagers do.
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Fast Forward

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson
Synopsis: In a single wordless page Siena passes through several years of her life, including injuries.
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Refuge

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; dancers; mother; father; Stanley Williams; Alexandra Danilova
Synopsis: Siena and her fellow students shuttle all day between Professional Children's School and School of American Ballet. She is now 16... school, ballet, and friends form a refuge as her parents are bitterly divorcing.
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Giselle

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Mandy; Giselle; prince; Wilis
Synopsis: Siena and Mandy attend a performance of Giselle, in which Giselle falls in love with a prince and dies. In the second act she is one of the Wilis -- women who died for love, and seek revenge on men. Giselle dances with her prince all night long in order to save him. The part, radically different in the two acts, is a demanding tour de force for a ballerina.
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Partnering Class

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
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Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; boy friend
Synopsis: Siena begins partnering class, after years of working solo. It seems like starting all over again.
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Good-Bye Mister B.

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson; Lincoln Kirstein; Suzanne Farrell
Synopsis: George Balanchine takes ill and shortly passes away. Before a packed house Suzanne Farrell performs Symphony in C with the New York City Ballet, as choreographed by Balanchine.
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To Dance

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Writer(s): Siena Cherson Siegel
Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
Character(s): Siena Cherson
Synopsis: Siena watches the ballet from the wings, without Mr. B. in the opposite wing. At 18 she gives up dancing following a terrible ankle injury. Though the change is a struggle, she goes to college and develops new engagements in her life. "A couple of years later I went back to the barre because I still needed to dance. Dancing fills a space in me."
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Acknowledgments

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Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
Colorist(s): Mark Siegel
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Penciller(s): Mark Siegel
Inker(s): Mark Siegel
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Character(s): Siena Cherson; dancers
First Line: To Dance" is a beautiful portrait of the magical world of dance, and an even more beautiful portrait of a young girl growing up.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Three illustrations repeated from interior. Blurbs from Peter Boal, Terry Teachout, Jessica Abel, Julie Kent.

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