5/20/2023 0 Comments Tennis shoes noel streatfeildAlthough she wrote fiction for adults and many other books for children, her fame rests primarily on Ballet Shoes and the ten subsequent novels of the "Shoes" sequence. The story of three adopted sisters, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil, who worked their way through ballet school to success on the stage, became an instant classic, read by thousands of children and heard by thousands more as a serial on the BBC Children's Hour.Īlways better known in England than in the United States, Noel Streatfeild died this September at the age of 91, leaving behind her 34 novels, 16 books of nonfiction and a wide variety of radio scripts. WHEN Ballet Shoes was published in 1936, 50 years ago this year, its popularity was such that Hatchards of Piccadilly rationed their queueing customers to one copy each, Bumpus bookstore filled its windows with pairs of ballet shoes belonging to famous dancers, and another store set up a special department just to handle that one title.
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