Dancing with Katya.Dancing with Katya Dori Chaconas Peachtree Publishers 1700 Chattahoochee Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30318-2112 1561453765 $16.95 www.peachtree-online.com Constance R. Bergum's gorgeous drawings lend to the lovely story of Anna and her little sister Katya, who live on a Wisconsin farm and love to dance in the meadow, presenting they're ballerinas. When Katya falls ill with polio polio: see poliomyelitis. her dancing days seem over: her legs are weak and misshapen mis·shape tr.v. mis·shaped, mis·shaped or mis·shap·en , mis·shap·ing, mis·shapes To shape badly; deform. mis·shap and Katya must struggle to even walk again--how will she dance with braces on? The sisters put heads together to resolve even a crippling crip·ple n. 1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device. tr.v. illness in this gentle story of sibling sibling /sib·ling/ (sib´ling) any of two or more offspring of the same parents; a brother or sister. sib·ling n. warmth and overcoming adversity which parents and teachers will relish. |
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