Rosa and the Special Prize (by Darcey Bussell)

Last Summer, while in the UK, one of the books I started reading to my five-year-old granddaughter was ‘Rosa and the Special Prize’, by Darcey Bussell. Now retired, she was the principal dancer with the Royal Ballet for some years. The book says it’s 10th in the ‘Magic Ballerina’ series, but it didn’t seem to matter much that my granddaughter hadn’t read or heard any of the previous books in the series.

Rosa is the name of the main protagonist of this story. I assume she’s about ten or eleven, t...