Holabird’s son, Adam, was her inspiration for the character Henry, and Angelina’s character was inspired by her daughters’ love for dressing up and dancing. In 1983, her first children’s book, Angelina Ballerina, was published. The two married in 1974 and moved to London where she continued to write and worked at a nursery school. Holabird then found herself in Italy as a freelance journalist where she met her husband, Michael Haggiag.
in literature from Bennington College in Vermont and then worked at Bennington College as a literary editor for a year after her graduation. The young, imaginative Holabird loved animals, playing in her tree house, and dancing with her sisters. Katharine Holabird is an American writer, best known as the author of the Angelina Ballerina series.Īs a child, Holabird was an avid reader who loved fairy tales and stories about heroic animals, and she frequently saw ballets like Cinderella and Swan Lake with her grandmother.
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