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Ella Bella Ballerina and A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Ella Bella Ballerina and A Midsummer Night's Dream by James Mayhew

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By James Mayhew

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Everyone’s favourite little dancer, Ella Bella Ballerina, steps out of fairytales and into the world of Shakespeare as she goes on a magical adventure in Fairyland, with Puck, King Oberon and Queen Titania. Who will the queen fall in love with when under the king’s spell? And what will become of the hapless actor Bottom, transformed into a donkey?

Beautifully illustrated and perfectly pitched for a young audience and all would-be prima ballerinas, and a wonderful very first introduction to the stories of the ballet and Shakespeare. From James Mayhew, the creator of the Katie series of books – featuring the hugely engaging Katie and making art an adventure for every child.

Reviews

05 Sep 2024

I think this book is really nice because it is really adventurous. Ella Bella helps the king of fairies & elves by giving him her flower crown (its magical) because it helps the queen fall in love with him again. My favourite character was Ella Bella and the elf that brought Ella to the fairyland. I like the elf because he was helpful and kind. I like Ella Bella because she shared with the fairies because she is kind and helpful as well.

28 Sep 2023

I liked best Ella Bella because she has been so kind to give her crown made of flowers to the Elf who needed to give it to the king to make the Queen fell in love with him Yes I would recommend it

23 Sep 2023

My favourite part is when Ella Bella found the flower crowd and with the elf they went to give it to the king so the Queen could fell in love again with the King
Yes I would recommend

30 Jul 2023

The book is about Ella Bella saw Puck and they had a magical adventure. This book is fiction and I will recommend it to my friends.

30 Jul 2023

I think that Ella Bella was a bit nervous to give her fairy hat with the flowers to the elf.

19 Jul 2023

I like that it has fairy's and elffs and a dream

06 Sep 2021

I liked it when ella bella saw the midsummer in the stage

26 Aug 2021

I liked the book when the queen was asleep and the donkey woke her up and the king and queen got together again.

06 Aug 2021

I liked it when they got the special flowers. Puck was my favourite character because he found the flowers for the King.

10 Aug 2019

I liked it because it was magical and elegant andyou could imagine the music. Ella Bella is a very creative young girl.

14 Jul 2019

When reading this book, I thought about being a fairy. It also reminded me about the information book about ballerinas.
I liked the part where Puck the elf sprinkled some magic dust on Bottom and he began to change into a donkey. He had no idea that he looked so funny and wondered why everyone ran off.
I picked the book because I always wanted to be a ballerina. I would tell my friends that if you read this book, it'll remind you of Kings and Queens and ballet.

14 Jul 2018

wow i love this

31 Aug 2017

Lovely book about a girls magical flower headband. With it she helped the fairy King and Queen.

19 Aug 2017

it was adventurous

04 Aug 2017

I like that book. It's so interesting.

04 Aug 2017

I like fairies

28 Jul 2017

I got a book named Ella Bella and it's the best in the history of the entire world!

26 Jul 2017

Because it's really funny and one of the boys had a funny name

05 Sep 2016

It has the tale of A Midsummer Night's Dream in it which is funny (because there is a person called Bottom who turns into a donkey!)

05 Sep 2016

I like that it tells a mini story of A Midsummer Night's dream - just a little bit different.

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