The world of ballet / edited by Anne Geraghty ; illustrated by Robert Geary.

Introduction -- Watching the Ballet / Rumer Godden -- Two Child Dancers / Noel Streatfeild -- A Visit to the Bolshoi Ballet / Mary Stacey -- Stories from the Ballet: Swan Lake ; Coppelia ; Giselle ; The Nutcracker ; The Sleeping Beauty -- The Ugly Swan / Helen Cresswell -- Ballet as a Career / Arnold Haskell -- Famous Dancers of Today: Margot Fonteyn ; Rudolph Nureyev ; Lynn Seymour ; Marcia Haydee ; Anthony Dowell and David Wall ; Antoinette Sibley ; Merle Park ; Doreen Wells / Clement Crisp -- "To Dance or Not to Dance?" / Shelagh Fraser -- The Dawning of an Obsession: 'Rudolph Nureyev / by Alexander Bland (an extract from the book 'Nureyev') -- A Dancer's Life / Elaine McDonald -- The Rise of Puddle Fratrum / Joan Aiken -- Ballet You Can Make / Beckles Willson -- Make-Up for Ballet / Leichter Studios -- Choreography / Elizabeth Malcolm -- Balanchine: Choreographer in his Element / Bernard Taper (An extract from his biography 'Balanchine') -- Famous People in the History of Ballet: Marius Petipa ; Mikhail Fokine ; Anna Pavlova ; Tamara Karsarvina ; Vaslav Nijinsky ; Léonide Massine ; George Balanchine ; British Ballet (Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) / Clement Crisp -- The Blue Train, the Story of Anton Dolin / Joan Selby-Lowndes -- Exotics: dance outside the ballet tradition / photographed by Baron.