FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When their father is captured during the war, three children come to London to live with their grandmother and join all the cousins of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Did You've Got Mail inspire some people to find SHOE books,
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This review is from: Theater Shoes (Paperback)
Do you remember when the Meg Ryan character walked into TomHanks' FOX BOOKS store and the customer asked about the"Shoes" books, and a monologue about the wonders of Noel Streatfeild's "Shoes" books ensued, touching on Dancing Shoes, Ballet Shoes, and Skating Shoes, which is absolutely wonderful? That scene made me break down crying, because I had never heard anyone other than myself talk about these terrific books, and the fact that it is tragic that they are mostly out of print and hard to find. This book is a wonderful story of working hard for a goal, and accomplishing it, or at least getting on the road to achieving a reasonable, yet magical, goal. If you want a great book for your favorite elementary school girl, buy this one - then buy the other "Shoes" books (and get a copy of Tennis Shoes for your favorite boy too!)
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A delightful companion to Ballet Shoes; don't miss it.,
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Sorrel, Holly, and Mark Forbes, whose father has disappeared in World War II, come from their grandfather's vicarage to live with their previously unknown grandmother, the great actress Margaret Shaw, in wartime London, and attend Madame Fidolia's school. They are "adopted" by the Fossil sisters (Pauline and Posy in California, Petrova flying in the war), and adjust to their talented cousins and new family. A vivid look at theatre life and London; delightful characters; a book that will enchant young and old. When will all this series be reprinted?
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Charming, simple fare,
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I admit that I have never quite outgrown children's books, of which this is definitely one. It is set in England in 1942-43 and is about three children named Sorrel, Mark and Holly. Their mother is dead and their father missing when the grandfather that they were living with dies. They are sent to live with their maternal grandmother, about whom they know nothing because their mother eloped and was never forgiven. It turns out that their mother was a member of a very famous stage family; so they are sent to the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training so that they can carry on the tradition. This book serves as a sequel to Ballet Shoes but it manages to be more successful than most sequels in that it doesn't follow the original characters' lives after they have resolved their primary drama, but it keeps them as peripheral to the main plot. This way, the reader knows what happened to them but is not disappointed by the fact that they have become so much less interesting. There really isn't too much commentary that can be given on this book. It's very nice if you like this sort of thing but probably be very annoying if you don't
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It is very difficult to look as if you minded the death of a grandfather who, though you may have spent your holidays in his house, certainly seldom remembered that you did. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Jay, Aunt Lindsey, Uncle Francis, Uncle Mose, Miss Smith, Aunt Marguerite, Uncle Henry, Wilton House, Madame Fidolia, Miss Jones, Sir Joshua, Christmas Day, Pauline Fossil, The Tempeet, Good King Wenceslas, Miss Shaw, Posy Fossil, Sorrel Forbes, Henry Warren, Kate Greenaway, Lady Macbeth, Madame Tussaud, Miss Addie, Moses Cohen, Ponsonby Square New!
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It is very difficult to look as if you minded the death of a grandfather who, though you may have spent your holidays in his house, certainly seldom remembered that you did. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Miss Jay, Aunt Lindsey, Uncle Francis, Uncle Mose, Miss Smith, Aunt Marguerite, Uncle Henry, Wilton House, Madame Fidolia, Miss Jones, Sir Joshua, Christmas Day, Pauline Fossil, The Tempeet, Good King Wenceslas, Miss Shaw, Posy Fossil, Sorrel Forbes, Henry Warren, Kate Greenaway, Lady Macbeth, Madame Tussaud, Miss Addie, Moses Cohen, Ponsonby Square New!
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- Ballet Shoes (The Shoe Books) by Noel Streatfeild in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- King Henry (Structural Readers) by William Shakespeare on page 37
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 49
- Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Collection) by Jan Dean on page 49
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 49
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- 100 Books for Girls to Grow On by Shireen Dodson on page 15
- The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children: 3rd Edition Revised and Updated by Eden Ross Lipson on page 268
- A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind by Michael D. O'Brien in Back Matter
- Booktalking Across the Curriculum: Middle Years by Nancy J. Keane on page 149
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