Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps is a CGI preschool animated children's television series and the successor of the Angelina Ballerina television series from 2001 to 2006; both series are in turn based on the Angelina Ballerina series of children's books by Katharine Holabird the author and Helen Craig the illustrator. The series first aired on 5 September 2009 on PBS Kids in the United States.