These world famous ballet stories are lovely, magical bedtime, or anytime stories, that will appeal to a wide range of kids, especially if they are interested in ballet, dance, acting, theater, ice skating or any kind of performing, and if they might like to go and see a live ballet. As well as to parents who might want to introduce their child to ballet and other cultural and traditional performing arts. Because ballets have no words, and only use dance music and mime to convey what's happening, without knowing the story beforehand, anyone can become completely lost. So your child will already know the plot of these very world famous ballets from these short stories, if they ever watch one online, or go to see one of them live (and so will you if you like). Every ballet performance is a different artistic interpretation. Sometimes they even change some of the most basic details of the plot, scenes and characters, but they usually keep the same, core storyline. We have based these children's stories on the basic, most agreed-upon general plots of all these five ballets. There is only a couple of times that we have modified them slightly and we have made it pretty clear. Lots of ballets contain tragedy or violence, negative role-modeling and themes and subjects not suited to the interests of children. So the ballets in these children's short stories are chosen as some of the very best ballets for children, that they are most likely to love and enjoy and appreciate. This version has full color illustrations. Give your child a unique gift that they will always remember. Treat your child to these magical, world famous ballet stories!