For the second year in a row, Evergreen City Ballet is bringing the beloved children’s book “Fancy Nancy” to the stage.

“Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly” opens at the theatre at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue this month and at Evergreen City Ballet’s Black Box Theatre in Renton in March.

Performances in Bellevue are 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Feb. 18 and 19. The Meydenbauer Center is located at 11100 N.E. Sixth St. in Bellevue.

It will be at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., March 3 and 4 at ECB in Renton at 2230 Lind Ave. S.W., Suite 109.

The ballet is based on the books created by author Jane O’Conner and illustrated by Robin Priess Glasser.

Priess Glasser will be at the Meydenbauer performances meeting attendees.

The Fancy Nancy enterprise has created 50 books in six years. There are toys, flap and sticker books, all kinds of incarnations.

It’s like running an animation studio and working with other artists who come up with a lot of the images, said Priess Glasser.

“It’s become a brand, but that being said we take extremely seriously the picture books that come out every year,” she said.

The holy grail is the picture book, which Priess Glasser works on personally.

She is a former ballerina, having danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet about 20 years ago.

At that time, Priess Glasser danced with ECB Artistic Director Kevin Kaiser and Mary LeGere, choreographer of the “Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly” ballet.

The first time Priess Glasser saw the ballet staged she cried through the whole thing because of her previous ballet work and said it was like seeing her experience come full circle.

“I can’t wait to come back and maybe I’ll get to see some of the adorable girls that came last year,” she said.

Attending a Fancy Nancy ballet is quite an event that brings out little girls as young as 3-years-old dressed in their mother’s pearls and gloves.

The ballet features dancers age 5 and 6 to 24 and 25-year-old company dancers.

Kaiser is deeply passionate about helping the youth of the community understand this art form and continue their education in arts, he said.

The performance is about an hour long and also features “Dancing to Disney.”

Last year the company had to add shows to the performances in Bellevue and Renton because is was so popular.

Kaiser’s philosophy is to give his dancers the full curriculum, curriculum, learning about being in a theater and how to perform on stage.

“The more opportunity (the students) have on stage the better they’ll become at a much faster pace,” he said.

Tickets for the shows are $19 for adults and $12 for students, ages 2-18 with valid identification.

For more information visit, http://www.evergreencityballet.org/perf-fancy.html