Once Upon a Book Club continues with Lanette Hansen from Magic 98 and Rowan Childs from the Madison Reading Project featuring the book, Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon and A. LaFage. 

“Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. 

Although there aren’t many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet.

Soon Sylvia learns how to fly—how to dance—and how to dare to dream"

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Once Upon a Book Club continues with Lanette Hansen from Magic 98 and Rowan Childs from the Madison Reading Project featuring the book,&nbsp;Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lea Lyon and A. LaFage.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV.&nbsp;
Although there aren&rsquo;t many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books, starts teaching herself the basics of classical ballet.
Soon Sylvia learns how to fly&mdash;how to dance&mdash;and how to dare to dream"
<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bus-stop-a-picture-book-angela-h-dale/51a58868f99c120d?ean=9781951836474&amp;next=t">Buy the book</a> <a href="https://www.madisonreadingproject.com/bookshop">Donate the book</a>

Once Upon A Book Club is a storytime dream come true for little book lovers and the grown-ups who cheer them on. Each month, one specially chosen kids book - handpicked by the Madison Reading Project - takes center stage, turning reading into a fun, shared adventure. With a mission to spark a love of books early on, Madison Reading Project helps make reading feel exciting, cozy, and full of possibility, one story at a time. It’s not just a book club - it’s the beginning of a lifelong love of reading. It's part of our focus on family at Magic 98.

Once Upon A Book Club is a storytime dream come true for little book lovers and the grown-ups who cheer them on. Each month, one specially chosen kids book - handpicked by the <a href="https://www.madisonreadingproject.com/">Madison Reading Project</a> - takes center stage, turning reading into a fun, shared adventure. With a mission to spark a love of books early on, Madison Reading Project helps make reading feel exciting, cozy, and full of possibility, one story at a time. It&rsquo;s not just a book club - it&rsquo;s the beginning of a lifelong love of reading. It's part of our focus on family at Magic 98.