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My Ballet Diary, Penguin Putnam (New York, NY), 1995.

Firebird (based on the ballet by Stravinsky), Putnam (New York, NY), 1994.

Lili at Ballet, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1993.

Over the Green Hills, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1992.

At the Crossroads, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1991.

Babies, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1990.

Friends, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1990.

Swan Lake: A Ballet Story (based on the ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky), Putnam (New York, NY), 1989.

The Princess and the Frog (based on The Frog King and Iron Heinrich by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm), Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1989.

The Pirates of Bedford Street, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1988.

I Touch, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1985.

I See, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1985.I Hear, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1985.Opening Night, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1984.City Seen from A to Z, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1983.The Nutcracker, (Retold) Macmillan (New York, NY), 1981.Jesse and Abe, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1981.No, Agatha!, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1980.My Ballet Class, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1980.

Ben's Trumpet, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1979.Backstage, with Robert Maiorano, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1978.Willaby, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1977.The Potters' Kitchen, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1977.She has continued to exhibit in multiple shows in 2019 at ArtNY, The Reveal Art Show in Saratoga Springs, NY and ArtMiami. Her solo exhibit in 2016 called 'Art of the Dance' featured 25 paintings about classic ballet and modern dance. Isadora's love for visual arts continues as well through her oil paintings. She lived in Africa for almost ten years, and has adapted a number of well-known stories and fairy tales to African settings, including Rapunzel, The Princess and the Pea, Hanzel and Gretel, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Night before Christmas, and The Twelve Days of Christmas. Many of her other works incorporate ballet and dance, most notably the series, Lili at Ballet, Lili on Stage, Lili Backstage, and the Caldecott Honor award-winning Ben's Trumpet, which combines music and dance. Her first book published in 1976, Max, is about a boy who realizes that taking ballet can help him become a better baseball player. She briefly danced with the Boston Ballet Company, until a foot injury caused her to seek work as a visual artist instead. She studied under New York City Ballet founder and artistic director, George Balanchine, and costume and scenic designer, Rouben Ter-Arutunion. Isadora started dancing as a young girl and went on to study at the School of American Ballet on a scholarship from the Ford Foundation.

In addition to freelance writing and illustration, Isadora shows and sells oil paintings, many of which reflect her love of dance, as well as her experiences living in Africa and New York City.

ISADORA SWANN WIKIPEDIA PROFESSIONAL

Isadora was a professional ballet dancer before an injury led to a change of careers. Several of Isadora’s books have been selected by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The more than 150 children's books Isadora has written and illustrated span a wide variety of topics, including ballet and dance, American urban culture and family life, life in Africa, and traditional fairy tales. Ben's Trumpet was adapted to video and also translated into a ballet by the Boston ballet company BalletRox in 2009. She is most famous for the book Ben's Trumpet, runner-up for the 1980 Caldecott Medal, or Caldecott Honor Book, and winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book honor. Rachel Isadora (born 1953) is an American illustrator, children's book author, specializing in picture books, and painter.

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