Satomi Ichikawa
1) Dance, Tanya
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Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.
4) Bravo, Tanya
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Tanya loves to dance but has trouble integrating her steps with the clapping and counting of her ballet teacher, until she tries moving to the music and the sounds inside her head.
5) La La Rose
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La La Rose, a young girl's stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
13) You are my wish
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Illustrations and rhyming text describe how a grandparent and child complement one another.
14) Grandpa's soup
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After the death of his wife, an old man gradually realizes that making the soup she used to cook and sharing it with friends eases his loneliness.
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Tanya joins her sister at home in practicing ballet dances, but Tanya is too young to begin dance class. After Tanya's sister is in a dance recital, things change. Tanya goes to the zoo and thinks that the animals are doing ballet moves. In a dance recital, Tanya is considered the ugly duckling until she is promoted to being a beautiful swan.