Chapter 1

ISADORA MOON Goes to the Ballet

Chapter ONE Isadora Moon, that's me! And this is Pink Rabbit. He is my best friend. We do everything together. Some of our favourite things include: flying among the stars in the night sky, having glitter tea parties with my bat- patterned tea set, and practising our ballet.

We have been practising our ballet a lot recently and putting on shows for Mum and Dad. I have discovered that Dad's vampire cape makes a great stage curtain! It looks especially nice with silver-star sequins glued onto it... though I am not sure Dad agrees. He seemed a bit ...annoyed last time he saw his best cape being used as a stage curtain. 'It's covered in stars!' he complained. 'I'm not a wizard, I'm a vampire! Vampires don't have starry capes.' I felt a bit bad then but it was OK because Mum waved her wand and the stars all disappeared. She can do things like that because she's a fairy.

She was the one who magicked Pink Rabbit alive for me. 'Good as new!' she said, sitting down on one of the chairs Pink Rabbit and I had put out for the audience. Dad sat down too, with my baby sister, Honeyblossom, on his lap, and they both waited for our show to begin.

'Right, I whispered to Pink Rabbit once we were behind the non-starry curtain. 'Can you remember your moves?' Pink Rabbit nodded and did a perfect arabesque. He's been getting very good at ballet lately. I gave him a thumbs up. 'Let's go!' I whispered Together we leapt out from behind the curtain in a magnificent grand jeté. Mum and Dad clapped and cheered. Pink Rabbit began to pirouette on his tippy- toes. I swirled and twirled in my black glittering tutu. 'Marvellous!' called Dad. 'Enchanting!' said Mum, waving her

wand so that we were showered with pink flower petals.