Ballet Cat: The Totally Secret Secret

By Bob Shea

Two best friends each hiding the same little secret, told almost entirely in speech bubbles.

Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony can't agree on what to play, and Sparkles is sitting on a secret he's scared to say out loud: he doesn't actually love ballet.

It's built exactly like the books they already love: two characters, big pictures, words in bubbles, and a whole story that's really just one honest conversation. The joke and the heart land at the same time, so a child laughs and gets the point without anyone spelling it out.