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Peoples-Riley, Daria

This Is It

40 pp. | Greenwillow | February, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-265776-3 $17.99

(2) K-3 In this rhyming second-person text, a girl with light-brown skin, exuberant red curls, and spindly limbs arrives for a ballet audition. Struck by a case of last-minute nerves, she gets a pep talk from an unexpected advocate--her shadow. In vibrant, digitally assembled sumi ink, gouache, and watercolor collages, the pair twirls and leaps in a lively duet through Manhattan's streets before returning for the audition.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2018