Customer Reviews

Angelina Ballerina with Doll

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Not only are the Angelina Ballerina books wonderful - all about a very strong willed little girl/mouse who lives out her dreams and learns many a good lesson in the process - but the Angelina Ballerina dolls (that are made by the American Girl Company) are equally as fabulous. I bought this set for my 3-year-old niece and I hope to add to her collection of both Angelina books and accessories for years to come. There is a book for every occasion (Christmas, birthdays, new siblings, new friends, school) and accessories for the doll to coordinate. There are also dolls for Angelina's little sister, her cousin and her best friend Alice. Plus tons of clothes, furniture and other fun stuff! It is so great to have toys that are quality made and so educational as well. You can not go wrong with Angelina Ballerina!

I bought this for my 3 year old daughter after we discovered Angelina through her videos. The story and artwork is beautiful and my daughter loves the book. It inspired her to want to attend dance class which she now does. Best of all this book comes with an adorable Angelina doll. My daughter takes it everywhere. Now she even wants us to call her Kaylie Angelina. Angelina is a great role model for any little girl. Every aspiring ballet dancer my daughter's age that I know of just loves her. This is a great set and I would recommend it to everyone.

This is a book about a little mouse that wanted so much to be a ballerina. She did nothing but dance and that got her into trouble. She would dance all over the place and bump into thing and knock things over. Everyone was getting sick and tired of Angelina ruining everything. One day her parents told her that she needed to stop dancing all the time because it was ruining things. She did stop and her parents sent her to ballet classes. This made her happy and now she wasn't dancing all over the place and ruining things. Everyone was happy and Angelina took lessons for many years and became a famous ballerina.
This was a really great book. It teaches children that they can be whatever they want to be but they can't let it get in the way of the rest of their life and I think the author did a really great job of getting that point across. Sometimes people think that things are just a momentary obsession but that is really what Angelina wanted to do with her life. She wanted to be a ballerina and she did it and proved that she really could do it.

The Angelina Ballerina series is absolutely wonderful! She is such a delightful character, and my daughter really seems to relate her ecspecially since she loves ballerinas.

Overall the stories are fun, interesting and capture their imagination. This is one that we read over and over and never get bored with.

My 2 year old loves to dance (and sing) and we bought this book a few weeks after her 1st exciting ballet class and she loved it! In fact, she made us substitute her name for Angelina's and still have to read the story that way!

We were very dissapointed to discover the book included with this set is softbound, not hardcover as the product desription states. We bought the set specifically because we needed a durable hardbound book, but basicaly ended up just paying 12 dollars extra for a softcover with a doll we didn't really want which quickly fell apart. We ended up returning the set for a refund.

My daughter loves Angelina Balerina (the books, the DVD's!) so we bought her this combo pack as she begged for a doll. A month after getting the doll, the doll's arm popped off. My 7 yr old daughter was crushed. We could see how to sew it back on, but we were going to wait until my mom, a seamstress, could look at it on their visit (so hopefully the full range of motion would be there). Well, so, the armless Angelina was played with. Today, however, something dangerous occured. The tail of the doll has a wire insert to make it pliable and posable. The wire had broken (we didn't know it) and poked through the fabric and into my daughter's hand.
Long story short, get the book, skip the dangerous toy! She's seven- and very careful. I'm afraid for the smaller kids who might play roughly with the toy.

If you like at the prices for the newer box set (released in 2006) are clearly closer to the MSRP of $27.95. This clearly NOT that much of a collectible to warrent prices in excess of $30.00! Even Amazons price is a bit more than $18.00. Pay a bit more attention to other items, ISBN numbers - don't take the first thing offered.

Great story and doll, We've had no problems with our Angelina Doll, very sturdy and book is a hardback.

I have yet to meet a 4 year old girl who didn't wish to be a ballerina.

The book is hardbound, nicely illustrated, and comes with a ten inch doll attired in a ballet costume that can be dressed and undressed. What more is there to say? This product makes the perfect Christmas or birthday gift.