Lottie Perkins, Ballerina

Lottie Perkins #2

by Katrina Nannestad, Makoto Koji (Illustrations)

I'm wearing a glittering tutu and a sparkling tiara.
I pirouette. Three times.
And I don't even trip.
My name's Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I'm a ballerina.
At least, that's my thing this week.

Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up - if only she could decide what she wanted to be!

64 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2019

About the author

Katrina Nannestad is an award-winning Australian author. Her books include The Girl Who Brought Mischief, the Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series and Bungaloo Creek.

Katrina grew up in country New South Wales in a neighborhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies and pursuing her love of stories. She now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hopeful and optimistic Lottie Perkins tries out for the ballet. When mean girl Harper gets the lead role, she mercilessly teases Lottie. Lottie keeps practicing to be the best tree she can be. When Harper injures herself going out of her way to make fun of Lottie, poetic justice is served and their roles are reversed.

[Leilani · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book and a DVD from the ABC so I thought I would read it before passing it on to a child.
It is a funny and charming book with an important message: never give up, and always believe in yourself, and good things will happen to you.
Cute and funny illustrations, too. Kids will love it.

[Barbara Kennard]

Found this book in local library as by a CBCA short listed author. Simple book for beginner readers, and if someone wanted to be a ballerina, but not wonderfully suited to it, this book could be helpful.
Light easy and I would think enjoyable read for beginner readers.

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Exchange movie star for ballerina and you get exactly the same story as the first one with our precocious and yet pain in the butt hero leading the way.
I'm sure some people will get cranky over her.