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Firebird written by Misty Copland and Illustrated by Christopher Myers was the winner of the 2015 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, received the 2015 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award New Writer Honor and topped multiple best book lists for NPR, Amazon and Essence Magazine. In this story, Misty Copland, one of today’s most famous ballerinas and the first African American principal dancer for American Ballet Theater (ABT) shares her story of how she worked to make her dreams a reality and paved the
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I chose this book for a movement/physical education/nonfiction reading lesson for Transitional reader lesson plan. Firebird has beautiful pictures to go along with a motivational story. Misty Copeland paves her way through dance and becoming a ballerina despite her background and everyone around her putting her down. This book is a fun and inspirational introduction into movement and what your body can do.
