By Janey Louise Jones (author)
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This is an absolutely delightful ballet story about friendship, family and following your dreams that's full of gorgeous girly charm from bestelling author Janey Louise Jones.
There are three books in the series.
Cloudberry Castle: Ballet School Secrets
Cloudberry Castle: Ballerina Dreams
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Ballet-mad Katie Mackenzie and her family have opened the Cloudberry Castle School of Dance. Living at the school should be great: there are lots of girls to make friends with; a new ballet teacher has arrived from the Scottish Ballet; Katie can dance all day, and her mum is her ballet teacher. But when posh girl Leo arrives, with her chauffeur and faddy diet, she threatens to ruin everything.
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Leo might be spoilt rotten but she's a brilliant dancer -- perhaps even better than Katie. Will Leo out-dance Katie and get to play the principal role of Princess Aurora in the Christmas performance of The Sleeping Beauty? As the dance drama unfolds, Katie and her friends discover a statue of a little ballerina in the castle's grounds: could it lead them to uncover more of Cloudberry Castle's hidden secrets?
The second story about Katie's ballet adventures at Cloudberry Castle, full of gorgeous girly charm.
'From the Cloudberry Castle series, this sturdy paperback creates an appealing boarding-school setting as well as a realistic tension between what Katie wants and what she must do to help ensure the school's financial stability. Katie makes a sympathetic narrator, sharing her story as events unfold. Jones, who lives in Scotland, offers ballet fans a chapter book with an unusual setting, an engaging story, and the promise of more adventures to come.' Booklist, American Library Association
Janey was born in Edinburgh and grew up by the seaside just outside the city. Janey published the first two Princess Poppy books herself (with her own illustrations) and the books were so popular that Random House Children's Books soon bought the series and re-packaged the books.
The series is now going from strength to strength, including picture books, activity books and sumptuous gift books. Janey has also written novels for young readers and the Princess Poppy Cookbook all of which have been very successful.
Janey read English at Edinburgh University specializing in the Victorian novel. Following this she became a teacher - a career that she absolutely adored - and then, with her husband, set up The Jelly Club, which has become an extremely successful chain of children's activity centres in Scotland. She still very much enjoys visiting schools and talking to children to find out what they like doing and what makes them laugh. Janey lives in Edinburgh with their three sons.
A quick fire quiz with Janey: Describe your books in one sentence? The Flower Fairies meet Thunderbirds Favourite character in your book? Rose – she’s gentle Favourite sentence or line in your book? Fairies from the Blossom Tree/Superskills galore have we! (From the song) As an author/illustrator whom would you like to be compared to? As an author, Shirley Hughes or Mairi Hedderwick Describe yourself in three words? Imaginative, kind, feminine Favourite character from a book? Anne of Greengables If you weren’t an author/illustrator, you would be… a cook Favourite place/setting to read a book? Shaded corner of a scented garden If you could have a fairy super power what would it be? To spread peace across the world Favourite colour? pink Favourite flower? poppy Favourite animal? dog
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Ballet-mad Katie Mackenzie and her family have opened the Cloudberry Castle School of Dance. Living at the school should be great: there are lots of girls to make friends with; a new ballet teacher has arrived from the Scottish Ballet; Katie can dance all day, and her mum is her ballet teacher.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Cloudberry Castle : Ballet School Secrets and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Cloudberry Castle : Ballet School Secrets features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Cloudberry Castle : Ballet School Secrets was written by Janey Louise Jones and published by Floris Books
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