![]() ![]() When it’s time to change, she goes back to into the closet – to find Austine there as well, unrolling her own long winter underwear from under her costume. But as she’s moving around, so does the underwear, until it’s bunching up in the strangest places and interfering with the grace of the dance. She rolls them up inside her leotard and tutu, and goes out to join the class. No one else wears such old-fashioned underwear, and she would just die if anyone knew. Needing her privacy, Ellen slips into the janitor’s closet and there reveals to the reader what she hopes no one in her dance class will ever know – she is wearing long woolen underwear for the winter. She races up to the changing room, only to find Austine, the new girl, already there. ![]() ![]() Ellen is off to ballet class, but she’s determined to get there first. The first chapter in the book is my very favorite. In “ Ellen Tebbits,” Beverly Cleary brings us another little girl who’s very ordinary, who has the same hopes, fears and dreams that nearly every little girl does. ![]()
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