This book is a heartwarming story about a young skater named Little Dorothy, who is inspired to ice skate after watching her grandmother's tracing of a Figure Eight, (a vintage skating maneuver for which the sport of figure skating is named). She then decides that her dream is to become the best skater she can be, and she is willing to work hard and practice in order to skate her very best. Little Dorothy loves everything about ice skating; and she feels like a fairytale princess when she wears her elegant, flowing skating dresses. And when she laces up her skating boots, she is magically transformed into the girl who loves to skate.