meet isabelle

Isabelle Parenti has spent her life working with children and teaching ballet to young children. She is the director of Ballet Petite, a ballet school founded in 1992 by Nancy Parenti, and is the premiere dance education program exclusively for young children. The curriculum incorporates dance choreography, children’s literature, music compositions, and beautiful costumes and props.

Isabelle Parenti hopes that, just like her wonderful ballet classes, her children’s books will offer an outlet for imagination and creativity where ballerinas can be encouraged to dance more frequently at home. She also wants to offer an avenue for those that don’t have the opportunity to come to her classes to express their creativity in a new way at home. Each book has suggested props that can be either found or made at home for children to dance and act out her stories with.

Lisée At The Ballet: The Nutcracker is the first book in a series in which Isabelle Parenti introduces all the Fairies of Blossom Grove. Be on the lookout for which book will be coming next!

Isabelle's Mission

Isabelle Parenti hopes that, just like her wonderful ballet classes, her children’s books will offer an outlet for imagination and creativity where ballerinas can be encouraged to dance more frequently at home. She also wants to offer an avenue for those that don’t have the opportunity to come to her classes to express their creativity in a new way at home. Each book has suggested props that can be either found or made at home for children to dance and act out her stories with. Her book is for that creative child who can’t stop twirling every time you turn on the music and loves to put on shows. She wants all children everywhere to dance more often and as frequently as possible!

Speaker

Isabelle is an inspiring speaker and author. As there are various topics with rich content that Isabelle shares, she merges energy and enthusiasm to empower and embolden any audience. While Isabelle routinely delivers custom content, her most popular topics include:

- How children's books can be used as an outlet for imagination and creativity where little ones can be encouraged to dance.
- Isabelle's experience as the director of Ballet Petite, a premiere dance education program exclusively for young children.
- The book Lisée At The Ballet: The Nutcracker.

If you are interested in learning more about how Isabelle would be an ideal fit and inspiration for your audience, please reach out to us today.

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Testimonials

I've been looking forward to the first book of this series for awhile, as have my kids whom I work with as a pediatric speech and language pathologist! The story is very engaging and easy to for little ones to follow along or can be used a stepping stone for beginning literacy or children with other speech and language goals! However, what I really found special and unique were the resources Isabelle provides on her website to bring the story to life with all the prop recommendations and music playlists! My two speech clients that are currently in dance lessons loved using the book as part of their therapy session activities, especially having goals with pretend play sequences and language! The illustrations are simply beautiful and match the story so well! Soft and delicate! Looking forward to future books in the series!!

- Kimberly Nielsen, Pediatric Speech and Language Pathologist