Magic Ballerina<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ebookupload-1685965869748-196x300.jpeg\")
<\/div>Magic Ballerina 01-06<\/p>
Darcey Bussell<\/span><\/span>Age 5<\/span><\/span>Magic<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\nDelphie is nine and completely ballet-mad. She’s never had a single lesson, so she learns from library books and dances everywhere, even on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One snowy evening she’s caught copying a class through the window of the new ballet school on her road. Madame Za-Za invites her in and lends her an old pair of red leather ballet shoes. That night the shoes start to glitter, and Delphie lands in Enchantia, where the characters from the ballets live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This bundle is the first six books. We also have books 7 to 12<\/a>, where the shoes pass to Rosa, books 13 to 18<\/a> with Holly, and two Jade books after that. On our shelf at 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIsadora Moon Goes to the Ballet<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ebookupload-1704792932803-210x300.jpeg\")
<\/div>Isadora Moon Goes to the Ballet<\/p>
Harriet Muncaster<\/span><\/span>Age 5<\/span><\/span>Friendship<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\nIsadora is half vampire and half fairy, and she’s ballet mad. Her favourite dancer is Tatiana Tutu, and she has the poster, the scrapbook and a black tutu just like hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when her class is off to see Alice in Wonderland, with Tatiana Tutu dancing the White Rabbit, she can hardly sit still. Then Mum and Dad volunteer to help on the trip. Oh dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a funny one. On our shelf at 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ballet Stars<\/a> is the shortest of the lot, a rhyming show-day story told by the dancers themselves, at a little over a hundred words. On our shelf at 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBallet books for 7 and 8 year olds<\/h2>\n\n\n\nIvy & Bean Doomed to Dance<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791614398_6ac9ddbe28f00-244x300.jpg\")
<\/div>Ivy & Bean Doomed to Dance<\/p>
Annie Barrows<\/span><\/span>Age 7<\/span><\/span>Friendship<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\nIt all starts with a book. Ivy’s grandma sends her The Royal Book of the Ballet, and the girls stop dead at the gory bits. A girl called Giselle comes back as a ghost and dances a duke to death. Brilliant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So obviously they have to take ballet. Bean’s mum agrees on one condition. Sixteen lessons and a show at the end, no quitting and no complaining. Then they meet Madame Joy, and it’s pli\u00e9s for half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivy and Bean like the idea of ballet a lot more than the practising. On our shelf at 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cinderella Ballet Mystery<\/a> is a Nancy Drew Clue Crew case about a pair of glass slippers that go missing days before opening night. On our shelf at 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBallet books for 9 and 10 year olds<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNo Ballet Shoes in Syria<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ebookupload-1682595921560-195x300.jpeg\")
<\/div>No Ballet Shoes in Syria<\/p>
Catherine Bruton<\/span><\/span>Age 9<\/span><\/span>War<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\nAya is eleven. She’s come to Manchester with Mumma and her baby brother Moosa, escaping the war in Aleppo, and their first claim for asylum has been turned down. It’s Aya who explains their story again and again and promises everyone it’ll all be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then she hears piano music drifting down the stairs at the community centre. There’s a ballet class going on up there, and it tugs at her like nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A moving one, about a girl who has lost almost everything except her love of dancing. On our shelf at 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dance in the Dark<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788072862_6a93d39eada11-197x300.png\")
<\/div>Scarlet and Ivy 3 – The Dance in the Dark<\/p>
Sophie Cleverly<\/span><\/span>Age 10<\/span><\/span>Mystery<\/span><\/div><\/div>›<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\nThe ballet class at Rookwood will dance Sleeping Beauty at a real theatre in town, and Scarlet badly wants the part of Aurora. She’s out of practice, and her old enemy Penny knows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So Scarlet sneaks off for secret extra lessons and won’t tell her twin Ivy where she’s going. Meanwhile something is creeping around the school at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s the third Scarlet and Ivy mystery, and so much of it rests on the first two that it’s best read after The Lost Twin<\/a>. On our shelf at 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBack-stage<\/h3>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readingmate.co.uk\/littlereads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ebookupload-1684412913461-197x300.jpeg\")
<\/div>Back-stage<\/p>
<\/div>Magic Ballerina 01-06<\/p>
Delphie is nine and completely ballet-mad. She’s never had a single lesson, so she learns from library books and dances everywhere, even on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One snowy evening she’s caught copying a class through the window of the new ballet school on her road. Madame Za-Za invites her in and lends her an old pair of red leather ballet shoes. That night the shoes start to glitter, and Delphie lands in Enchantia, where the characters from the ballets live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This bundle is the first six books. We also have books 7 to 12<\/a>, where the shoes pass to Rosa, books 13 to 18<\/a> with Holly, and two Jade books after that. On our shelf at 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isadora Moon Goes to the Ballet<\/p> Isadora is half vampire and half fairy, and she’s ballet mad. Her favourite dancer is Tatiana Tutu, and she has the poster, the scrapbook and a black tutu just like hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So when her class is off to see Alice in Wonderland, with Tatiana Tutu dancing the White Rabbit, she can hardly sit still. Then Mum and Dad volunteer to help on the trip. Oh dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s a funny one. On our shelf at 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ballet Stars<\/a> is the shortest of the lot, a rhyming show-day story told by the dancers themselves, at a little over a hundred words. On our shelf at 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivy & Bean Doomed to Dance<\/p> It all starts with a book. Ivy’s grandma sends her The Royal Book of the Ballet, and the girls stop dead at the gory bits. A girl called Giselle comes back as a ghost and dances a duke to death. Brilliant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So obviously they have to take ballet. Bean’s mum agrees on one condition. Sixteen lessons and a show at the end, no quitting and no complaining. Then they meet Madame Joy, and it’s pli\u00e9s for half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivy and Bean like the idea of ballet a lot more than the practising. On our shelf at 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cinderella Ballet Mystery<\/a> is a Nancy Drew Clue Crew case about a pair of glass slippers that go missing days before opening night. On our shelf at 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No Ballet Shoes in Syria<\/p> Aya is eleven. She’s come to Manchester with Mumma and her baby brother Moosa, escaping the war in Aleppo, and their first claim for asylum has been turned down. It’s Aya who explains their story again and again and promises everyone it’ll all be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then she hears piano music drifting down the stairs at the community centre. There’s a ballet class going on up there, and it tugs at her like nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A moving one, about a girl who has lost almost everything except her love of dancing. On our shelf at 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scarlet and Ivy 3 – The Dance in the Dark<\/p> The ballet class at Rookwood will dance Sleeping Beauty at a real theatre in town, and Scarlet badly wants the part of Aurora. She’s out of practice, and her old enemy Penny knows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So Scarlet sneaks off for secret extra lessons and won’t tell her twin Ivy where she’s going. Meanwhile something is creeping around the school at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s the third Scarlet and Ivy mystery, and so much of it rests on the first two that it’s best read after The Lost Twin<\/a>. On our shelf at 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back-stage<\/p>Isadora Moon Goes to the Ballet<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/div>Ballet books for 7 and 8 year olds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ivy & Bean Doomed to Dance<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/div>Ballet books for 9 and 10 year olds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
No Ballet Shoes in Syria<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/div>The Dance in the Dark<\/h3>\n\n\n
<\/div>Back-stage<\/h3>\n\n\n
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