Ballet Bunnies #2: Let's Dance by Swapna Reddy

Ballet Bunnies #2: Let's Dance Reviews

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  Becky

  First sentence: Miss Luisa's School of Dance was surprisingly noisy when Millie turned up for her ballet lesson.
  
  Premise/plot: Millie has kept up with her dance lessons despite the unfriendly welcome and the bullying. Those bunnies must be super-super cute to make up for it! In this second adventure, the school is preparing for a recital (or show). Amber the bully is sure that Millie who is absolutely new to dancing and hardly has any skills will 'ruin' the show. She is determined to find a way to keep Millie from the stage...but with a little help from the bunnies...things may be set right before the 'curtains open.'
  
  My thoughts: I do have to say I was wrong. My first impression is that the school only had one class. I do think there are more classes and that they are determined solely and exclusively by age. Millie's class will be the 'spring fairies' carrying water-pots.
  
  The bunnies are still super-super cute. Millie is becoming quite chummy with a classmate, Samira. And even better friends with the four bunnies.
  
  I think for the target audience--young girls in lower elementary school--this one is cute enough and has plenty of appeal.
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  Barbara

  Millie is beyond excited that she will have the chance to be one of the flower fairies in the upcoming dance gala. But she will need to learn how to move smoothly while holding onto one of the props, a flower watering can. When her nerves get the best of her, Dolly, one of the four ballet bunnies who have become Millie's friends, volunteers to accompany her on stage by hiding in the watering can. This helps soothe Millie's anxiety, but her nemesis, Amber, tries to throw her off her game by disposing the prop--with Dolly inside. Millie is frantic to find Dolly, but all ends well in this, the second in a series for young readers and fans of ballet. It is hard to resist those bunnies, each one of them unique, or all the pink illustrations and ballet poses.
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  Annamarie Carlson (she, her)

  The Ballet Bunnies helped Millie learn the basics of ballet, but now Millie has a lot more to learn as she and the other young dancers prepare for the upcoming performance in front of a full theater of people. Can Millie learn to dance with a prop? She will practice and practice until she gets her steps perfect--but what happens when everything still goes wrong on performance day?
  
  This was fun! It doesn't flow quite as well as I would like, but it will be well loved by young dancers and the bunnies help it earn so many cute points.
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  Marissa Gehrke

  Maybe I should have read the first one in the series in order to understand how Millie became friends with talking bunnies at a ballet studio? But I loveeeee stories where the magical talking animals are a secret from everyone except the protagonist! This was a fun story about dealing with stage fright, trying your best, and having fun while dancing. It was frustrating that the bully didn't face any consequences, and I would have liked a little more to the story once the performance was over. But the cute dancing bunnies stole the show!
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  Brittany

  Just so stinking cute.
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  Jean

  Super cute!!! I want some ballet bunnies in my life too.