Ballet Shoes

by Noel Streatfeild, Full Cast, Rosemary Leach

Overview

When Sylvia and her old nurse Nana agree to keep house for Gum, they know they will be looking after his fossil collection while his away on his travels. But imagine their surprise when one day he brings them something else - three baby girls whose names all being with 'P'! Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are not really sisters - even their surname is invented. The girls decide to 'put our name in the history books because it's our very own', and enrol at the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. Each Fossil uses her individual talents to achieve their joint aim in this captivating story, now a modern children's classic.

2 CDs. 2 hrs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846071133
Publisher:	B B C Worldwide Americas
Publication date:	08/07/2006
Series:	BBC Children's Classics
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	1
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 4.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Noel Streatfeild was born in Amberley, Sussex in 1895. Her first novel, Ballet Shoes, is her best-known book but she went on to write many well-loved stories for children, including Circus Shoes which won the Carnegie Medal in 1938. In 1983 she was honoured for her contribution to children's publishing when she was awarded an OBE. She died in 1986.

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The Fossil sisters lived in the Cromwell Road. At that end of it which is farthest away from the Brompton Road, and yet sufficiently near it so one could be taken to look at the dolls’ houses in the Victoria and Albert every wet day. If the weather were not too wet, one was expected to “save the penny and walk.”
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