by Noel Streatfeild · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007580453
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White Boots is a delightful story by Noel Streatfeild that explores friendship and rivalry in the world of ice skating. The plot follows Harriet, a young girl who starts skating to improve her health, and Lalla Moore, a skating star. Their friendship is tested as Harriet improves in the sport. Can their friendship survive ambition and external pressures? A captivating read for young readers.
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.
