Marilyn SingerTallulah's Tap Shoes

I got this to read to my daughter, who is also a dancer. Fantastic book about not having to be perfect and that it's ok to like some things more than others. I really like how the story involves encouraging the characters to keep working at what doesn't come easy.

I'm giving this three stars only because of the beautiful illustrations. We found Tallulah to be a bit bratty and pouty throughout the book. Tallulah attends dance camp, she loves ballet because she is the best in class and hates tap because she thinks she is the worst in class. There is a little girl at camp who feels the opposite about ballet and loves tap, and because the little girl doesn't show up for ballet class one day Tallulah thinks its ok to skip tap class since she doesn't like it. Within the last couple of pages the two girls become friends and realize that they can enjoy the dance classes that they don't favor even though they feel they are the worst in the class. I wish the book showed more of Tallulah giving an effort to try something new instead of being pouty and bratty towards the tap class and little girl.

My daughter loves this book! Cute story: about how it's okay to not be "the best" at something.

This is such a sweet book collection. We're collecting them all!

Great book. Made a good dance recital gift!

We adore all the tallula books.

Kids love the book

We have all of the Tallulah books at our house and love them and the artwork as well. Highly recommend these.

We love this collection.This may not be the favorite of out daughters because it is less about ballet than about discovering new things and learning to appreciate them even if we are not the best at them.I believe that it's great that they read it à message that I wanted to pass to thème and tallula was à perfect way to do it !