Her first book, Max, is about a boy who realizes that taking ballet can help him be a better baseball player. She briefly danced with the Boston Ballet Company, until a foot injury caused her to seek work as a visual artist instead. Isadora started dancing as a toddler and went on to study at the School of American Ballet on a scholarship from the Ford Foundation. The twelve dancing princesses by rachel isadora.In addition to freelance writing and illustration, Isadora shows and sells oil paintings, many of which reflect her love of dance, as well as her experiences living in Africa and New York City. Isadora was a professional ballet dancer before an injury led to a change of careers. The more than 150 children's books Isadora has written and illustrated span a wide variety of topics, including ballet and dance, American urban culture and family life, life in Africa, and traditional fairy tales. She is most famous for Ben's Trumpet (runner-up for the 1980 Caldecott Medal, or Caldecott Honor Book), which has been adapted to video and was also translated into a ballet by the Boston ballet company BalletRox in 2009.
Rachel Isadora (born 1953) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, especially picture books.
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