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SECRET DIARY OF A BALLERINA

芭蕾女孩的祕密日記

Author Ballet Monsters
Translator Pamela Hunt

Ballet Monsters has a passion for all things ballet that includes designing clothes and drawing pictures inspired by his favourite dance. Encouraged by friends, he started a Facebook page and began posting his pictures. They were a huge success, gaining him over thirty thousand fans. This is Taiwan’s first illustrated book about ballet.

With only one illustration per page and short, to-the-point text, this book opens up a world of young dancers, their fears, their hopes, their struggles and their triumphs. While the book centres on no fixed main character, the reader follows in the footsteps of all young ballet dancers, from first practice to first performance and all the small competitions along the way. Princesses in tutus, crazy mothers, strange exercises, the constant jockeying for position, it’s all here, described with warmth and humour. The inner dramas rarely seen underneath the graceful exterior.

Those who are themselves intoxicated with the ballet will chuckle with recognition, while those who have never tried will understand the lure of this most beautiful dance.

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Category: Graphic Novel
Publisher: Global Views – Commonwealth Publishing Group
Date: 2014/4
Pages: 216

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Anita Lin (Books from Taiwan)

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Press & Media

● Taipei Times: Artist’s ballet dancers a big hit
● Dance Studio Life: Taiwanese Artist’s Cartoons Depicting a Ballerina’s Life Attracts Internet Fans
● Pointe Magazine Online: Keith Lin's "Ballet Monsters" Capture #DancerLife
● NYC Expeditionist: BALLET MONSTERS
● Entre puntas y corcheas: ILUSTRACIONES: BALLET MONSTERS

Press & Media (Chinese)

● Womany：別人轉兩圈，你就要轉三圈，舞蹈世界沒有休息的一天
● Readmoo：真實世界的舞者人生─《芭蕾女孩的祕密日記》
● 中時電子報：芭蕾揭密林秉豪戳破蓬蓬裙之夢
● 藝想世界：《芭蕾女孩的祕密日記》揭密芭蕾血淚