num_pages: 32
description: "In spring, summer, fall and winter, a mother leads her young daughter in dancing a celebratory ballet, a hymn to the season. When the girl is older, she is a ballerina and remembers that her mother gave her a dancing heart.... [An] exuberant celebration of dance." - School Library Journal, starred review
language: English
title: My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
titlecomplete: My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Poetry, Writing, Kids, Realistic Fiction, Family
ratings_count: 504
publisher: Scholastic Inc.