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  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141385815
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Pages: 130
  • RRP: $24.99

Ballet Shoes




A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime

Ballet Shoes is the much loved classic by Noel Streatfeild
'I wonder . . . if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they'd choose to be?'
Pauline longs to be an actress.
Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines.
And if she could . . . Posy would dance all day!
But when their benefactor Great-Uncle Matthew disappears, the Fossil girls share a future of a dazzling life on stage, where their dreams and fears will soon come true . . .

Noel Streatfeild once said that Ballet Shoes was 'really a fairy story with its feet half-way on the ground' - a magical description for a magical book.

  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141385815
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Pages: 130
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Noel Streatfeild

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 books 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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