Books: Drina Series by Jean Estoril

[K8smom]

minty, I got most of my daughter's Drina books at www.abebooks.com . They have many dealers working with them, and I was able to find all of the missing books within about 3 weeks. So if you can't find them through amazon (which would help to support this site), you might want to give them a try. Good luck!

[minty]

Thanks a lot, I'll try at once

[Guest anlbe]

Drina Ballerina is tha last book in the series

[BW]

And here is a nice long thread on these books on the other Ballet Talk board: Drina Book Series.

 

anibe, it was very kind of you to reply to this thread from the past. Perhaps, if the original poster is nolonger around, someone else will benefit from the information.

[Guest Lori64]

Fabulous books - I read them all as a child, but mislaid my copies. Are they still in print? I'd love to replace mine - I've seen the odd one on sale on Ebay.

 

The other books I loved were Lorna Hill's Sadlers Wells books - would love to get hold of these again too.

 

I recently picked up another Lorna Hill series, the "Dancing Peel" series - again a great read!

[K8smom]

Lori - no, they're not still in print, as far as I know. Read the thread above that BW pulled up - it's really informative. I posted on that one, so won't repeat it, here - but it should answer all of your questions.

[Guest misskelly]

For those of you who are as in love with The Drina ballet books as I am, here is something that I feel may excite you as it did me. The Drina books is an 11 book series on a little girl named Drina who wants to be a ballet dancer. They are particularly charming, and quite rare. The first 5 are much easier to find, as they were the only ones printed in the US. The others are especcialy rare. Especcialy Drina Ballerina, the last book- which is up for 200+ dollars on Ebay- not something that you'd really want to spend that much on. While looking for stores on-line that carry out of print books, I was more than ecstatic to learn something new: New Zealand has all 11 books. They are roughly 10 dollars each, plus 7 for shipping- BUT- that is way less than a rare and used bookstore or Ebay. I can't believe my lucky stars! The website is: http://childrensbookshop.netstep.co.nz/index.php

It is truly a find!

I hope you all enjoy reading these delightful books as much as I have!

 

Kelly

[minty]

I jumped on your link yestreday, then whent through the whole process off ordering Drina Ballerina ; not receiving any coonfirmation, I e-mail the bookshop , only to be told that the book was unavailable and out of print - I'm all the more angry as I've given them my credit card number...

so beware of seemingly wonderful finds...

[K8smom]

minty, as I mentioned above, these books are available at both amazon.com (which helps this site make a bit of money ), and abebooks.com, for much less than $200. I just checked both, and some are available on both (maybe all, I didn't go through all of the pages at abebooks - there were many). If you haven't read the other thread that BW brought up: Drina books, you might want to do that. It mentions how some of the books have different titles (those published in the US are different than those published in England). I didn't know that, and ended up with a couple of duplicates. I'm sorry, it's been a while so I can't really remember now which ones are duplicates, and my daugther has the books packed away somewhere so I can't check. Anyway, it took me about three months to collect the whole series, and I don't think that I paid more than $7.00 or so for each book (and some were much less). For me, being in the US, the shipping was often more than the book, since a lot of them are from booksellers in Europe.

 

Good luck with your search!

 

Reading back, I see that you participated in that thread as well, so you are probably familiar with the differences. Anway, do keep searching!

[kayleen]

I found it most fascinating reading through this post and its replies. I was wondering if any one of you could perhaps help me with a collection of ballet books I am looking for, the series of books is called 'dancers of to-day' I have number one which is about Margot Fonteyn and number six which is about Alicia Markova, I found these books at a second hand book store, the last reprint that i know of was in 1954. I would very much like to complete my collection so any information would be valued.

[minty]

thank you K8smum , I have them all...except Drina Ballerina ; I'll try again on amazon and abebooks, though, it's just that as it came up, I thought I would try...happy Christmas !

[K8smom]

minty, abebooks has three, but they're ridiculously expensive, and Amazon's is even more expensive. It took me about three months, if I recall correctly, to collect all the books - I probably checked on a daily basis for new copies. I believe that I got Drina Ballerina from abebooks, but I know that I didn't pay what they're currently asking...happy Christmas to you, too.

[Hamorah]

Kayleen - I know the books you are thinking of. I suggest you send an e-mail to Dance Books (dancebooks.co.uk) and ask them if they have any in their second-hand collection. That's the only place where I think you'd have a chance of finding them. They are closed now for Christmas until December 29th, but if you send an e-mail after that they will answer you.

[kayleen]

Thank-you very much, Hamora!!