One windy day a magazine blew down the road I reached out & caught it A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle She looked very happy At the age of three Michaela De Prince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time but was soon adopted by a family & brought to America Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw & decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true She has been dancing ever since & after a spell as a principal dancer in New York now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam Beautifully & gently illustrated by Ella Okstad Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela De Prince's highly moving memoir Hope in a Ballet Shoe