TALLCHIEF: America's Prima Ballerina
Maria Tallchief, with Rosemary Wells, illus. by Gary Kelley. . Picture Puffin, $6.99 (28pp) ISBN 978-0-14-230018-3
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Reviewed on: 10/22/2001
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