My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
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"In spring, summer, fall and winter, a mother leads her young daughter in dancing a celebratory ballet, a hymn to the season. When the girl is older, she is a ballerina and remembers that her mother gave her a dancing heart— [An] exuberant celebration of dance." — School Library Journal