hi everybody, I'm a french girl whose hobby is ...collecting ballet books for children, and mostly in english. It's nearly impossible to find some in France, but I order a lot on Amazon and Adlibris too.
About the Drina books : I was only able to get 6 out of 11, so if anybody could help, that would be lovely ; apparently they've been reedited
some of them by Simon & Schuster USA in 1992
some of them by MacDonald GB in 1987
also by Jean Estoril you have The Ballet Family , and The Ballet Family again (Mac Donald 1989)
Drina in Exile is the one where she stays at Chalk Green , and dances The Changeling (just before Drina goes to Italy)
If you like long series , you have the Sadler's Wells one by Lorna Hill (11 books I think) , beginning by A Dream of Sadler's Wells (they exist in French in the Bibliothèque Verte under the title Irène à l'Opéra, and everything has been changed to fit France and the Paris Opera .
jEAN uRE has written 'You win some, you lose some' and 'A proper little Nureev' and others I think
another nice series is Ballet School by Mal Lewis Jones
good reading
(and yes , it is rather an expensive hobby)