by Noel Streatfeild · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140300413
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«Ballet Shoes» is the classic children's novel by Noel Streatfeild, published by Puffin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
The story follows Pauline, Petrova and Posy, three girls taken in by the eccentric Great Uncle Matthew, who grow up as sisters in a London house. While he travels, each develops her own gift: Pauline wants to be an actress, Petrova is drawn to cars and engines, and Posy lives for ballet. When money begins to run out and the uncle does not return, the three prepare to take the stage and achieve what they have set out to do.
It is the first title in the Shoes series, also known as The Shoe Books, by Noel Streatfeild.
Recommended for young readers aged 8 and up.
Mary Noel Streatfeild was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the U.S. publisher of the 1936 novel Ballet Shoes (1936), published some of Streatfeild's subsequent children's books using the word "Shoes" in their titles, to capitalise on the popularity of Ballet Shoes; thus Circus Shoes, Party Shoes, Skating Shoes and many more. She won the third annual Carnegie Medal for The Circus Is Coming.
