Tiny Dancer Review

 

Another graphic novel about dance!

Tiny Dancer by Siena Cherson Siegel is a memoir about the author growing up as a ballet dancer. She is very passionate about it--until one day during a summer dance session she gets a very bad injury that alters her dancing skills. She goes through a period where she feels she is unable to do anything and be good at all of it. Especially when her friends all move up into higher levels and all end up at prestigious dance schools. Siena ends up quitting ballet in high school, and she tries to find other paths in life to become passionate about. Luckily, her love of ballet never goes away! 

This was one of the most relatable memoirs I have read so far! I did ballet all throughout elementary school and part of middle school. I never got any serious injuries from it, but in middle school I did quit doing it because I wasn't enjoying it as much as I once was. I later on found out it was mainly because of sensory issues (after I was diagnosed with autism last year). But ballet is still one of my special interests! Now I just prefer watching other people do it.

But enough about me. Siena's memoir gets 5 stars from me. It's a great book about life not always going as planned, and that's okay!