Showtime!

Emma has her most challenging story yet -- and a real TV reporter helping her put it on the air! Can they find her dance group's special drum before showtime?
This is Emma Perez, and I'm ON THE AIR! Today at dance class, Sophia, Shakira, and I found out the best news ever: Our dance group is going to be part of the Thanksgiving Day parade! But now our special drum is missing and we can't do our dance without it! Where could it be? Emma and her friends want to put their best foot forward at showtime, but first they'll have to solve their biggest mystery yet! It's time for a new edition of EMMA IS ON THE AIR! Praise for Big News! (Emma is on the Air #1):"Emma is confident, outgoing and tenacious... [Her] lively personality is evident in the cartoonish black-and-white illustrations… [A]n entertaining series debut." --Kirkus Reviews"...Siegal's heroine has all the personality and persistence necessary for a career in front of a camera (or between the pages of a chapter book)." --Publisher's Weekly Ida Siegal is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and on-air reporter at NBC's flagship station in New York City, WNBC. Ida also lives in New York City, with her husband and their two children. The Emma Is On the Air series is her children's book writing debut. Praise for Big News! (Emma is on the Air #1):"Emma is confident, outgoing and tenacious... [Her] lively personality is evident in the cartoonish black-and-white illustrations… [A]n entertaining series debut." --Kirkus Reviews"...Siegal's heroine has all the personality and persistence necessary for a career in front of a camera (or between the pages of a chapter book)." --Publisher's Weekly