The Girl Who Wanted to Dance follows a young girl who feels the passion in her heart to dance. Her family dynamic is surely different from others. She mainly lives with her grandmother and father her mother absent from her life since she was a baby. Her grandmother teaches her piano and allows her to dance freely while telling her stories of her mother. Her father is a little more strict and once her grandmother dies he shelters her even more. Until she runs off to see the dancers in the forest where she really wants to be. One day her father chases after and she realizes "her dancer" is really her absent mother. When her father and her leave her mother behind he begins to open back up to her and wants her to dance for him.
This book is very real and honest in family dynamic and I like that because children's book are lacking this sometimes. Her parents aren't together, she lives with her grandma and she is trying to learn who she wants to be. Great inspirational book for those with a different family life or those who have a passion, such as dance, and desire to follow it. ( )

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Media: watercolor and acrylic ( )