Lena’s Toes

I got this book for my daughter who is a dancer and she enjoyed reading it. She was slow to read chapter books independently but once she started this one, she read through it twice on her own.

This book was adorable! My ballet loving daughter said it was about her. We love how wholesome these books are.

A. liked that Lena worked hard and practiced to get better. With both of my girls who read it, we discussed all of the parallels in Lena’s story with the lessons we learned about growth mindset, which we had just studied in previous months and had been focusing on, so this book was a great tie-in.

C. took a couple of months to get this book read. She rated it 4 stars, but it took her a while to make that determination. Despite liking the subject matter, she hadn’t as fully enjoyed the experience of reading the book. The pages and the chapters weren’t very uniform in their length, so some pages had what felt like a lot of text and that is a bit daunting to her at this stage in her reading skill. The chapters that were fairly lengthy were tiresome for her. I wish it had been stretched out a little and divided into more even chapters. It likely would have been more enjoyable for her.

This is such a cute story. My 6 year old loves having her very own first chapter book!

We loved Lena’s example of never giving up on her dream, even in the face of discouragement.