What We're Reading: Tracy

Brontorina, by James Howe, illustrated by Randy Cecil.

"Brontorina had a dream.
'I want to dance.'
'But you are a dinosaur,' Madame Lucille pointed out.
'True,' Brontorina replied. 'But in my heart I am a ballerina.'
Madame Lucille wondered what to do. She had never had a dinosaur as a student before. Dinosaurs were rather large. And this one certainly did not have the right shoes."

So begins James Howe's delightful new picture book, Brontorina. Poor Brontorina: she is too big to fit inside Madame Lucille's dance school (and she doesn't have the right shoes.) Will she ever find a way to realize her dream? The answer is revealed on the final two page spread, which features an illustration of "Madame Lucille's Outdoor Dance Academy for Girls and Boys and Dinosaurs...and Cows."