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Ballet shoes. Noel Streatfeild

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Orangeanddemons · 29/12/2013 15:53

Wow! It is fantastic isn't it? I'd forgotten how good it was!

Dd got some book vouchers for Christmas. Took her to get some books and found this. I bought it for me, and M reading it again. It wad my best boom ever when I was little, and it's still great now.

This version even has a bow on the cover! Dd hasn't even been able to get near it!

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MirandaWest · 04/01/2014 00:26

My DD introduced me to Carbonel - I like it when she wants to read something a bit more interesting than Rainbow blooming magic fairies Grin

woozlebear · 04/01/2014 00:20

Notalondoner- there was a film of ballet shoes which I must have watched a billion times. Literally once a week for years. watched it for the first time in decades last christmas and suddenly realised that petrova went on to be in east Enders! I also realised it uses some of sleeping beauty in the sound track which still gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.

Morris- I read both Rebecca and little women as an adult and adored them. Do try!!

And whoever mentioned carbonel and the family at one end street. I've never come across anyone who knows them!!!!!!

Am going to have to rebuy all of these now, plus all the other NS I never read.

Did anyone else love little house on the prairie? And the flicka books?

stealthsquiggle · 04/01/2014 00:04

So many books on here that I loved. However, I was somewhat disillusioned by meeting Noel Streatfield who turned out to be (at the time) a very grumpy old lady whom I am sure Puffin regretted bringing to a book signing.

TheNightIsDark · 03/01/2014 23:54

They were spoilt rude children really weren't they? I kept pausing to think "entitled much?"

MirandaWest · 03/01/2014 23:53

Thank you for my pdf Sorrel :)

MirandaWest · 03/01/2014 23:52

I had the Painted Garden when I was younger had then a few years ago found a different version in a charity shop. Turned out the one I had originally was slightly abridged. No major changes but little additional parts here and there.

SorrelForbes · 03/01/2014 23:35

They were all a bit annoying in The Painted Garden! The older I get the more I empathise with Aunt Cora Grin

TheNightIsDark · 03/01/2014 23:32

Just finished the painted garden.
I really couldn't take to Jane Confused I tried so hard but meh. I did like the story though and I like Posy more than I did in Ballet Shoes.

BelleOfTheBorstal · 03/01/2014 22:22

Fucking phone! Thank you kindly Forbes!
Will read as light relief from GOT, received the box set for crimbo!

BelleOfTheBorstal · 03/01/2014 22:21

I got the email

BelleOfTheBorstal · 03/01/2014 22:20

I

beatricequimby · 01/01/2014 22:13

Sorrell, Thank you for the PDF. Am saving it for a treat for the last day of the holidays.

TheNightIsDark · 01/01/2014 18:43

I did Sorrell had completely forgotten! Thank you Grin

PrincessFiorimonde · 01/01/2014 17:39

Thank you very much for emailing the pdf, Sorrel. Thanks

SorrelForbes · 01/01/2014 17:28

Curtain Up (Theatre Shoes) also features the Fossils, albeit from a distance.

SorrelForbes · 01/01/2014 17:28

TheNightIsDark Did you get my email with the pdf?

Grennie · 01/01/2014 17:22

I ;loved the name Petrova as a child. It sounded so exotic and exciting.

Islenka · 01/01/2014 17:20

I love it! Shame that many of the other books were essentially the same story line- but usually with less appealing characters. I like White Boots. I didn't get to read any of those books as a child. But my DC all have, and DD2 wanted to be Petrova....Smile

teacherwith2kids · 01/01/2014 16:24

depankris, That is the one I have, too. It is an early Puffin, in the days when cheap paperbacks for children were a novelty!

TheNightIsDark · 01/01/2014 16:14

Ah that's the one I've ordered. It shall arrive Friday Grin

ancientbuchanan · 01/01/2014 15:30

Read the Painted Garden. It's a sort of sequel.

TheNightIsDark · 01/01/2014 15:29

Finished ballet shoes and feel rather flat! What happened to them next?

It's rather frustrating.

depankrispaneven · 01/01/2014 15:13

I think I claim the oldest edition for my first reading. It was my mother's, and I think she would have got it in the 40s or 50s. I can't find a copy online, but I remember it as a paperback with a pale green cover and the original illustrations. My mother suggested I read it when I was under the weather, and it became absolutely my favourite book, but it got more and more shabby with every read.

beanandspud · 30/12/2013 22:03

Have spent the last two hours reading the Kindle edition of Ballet Shoes. Xmas GrinXmas GrinXmas Grin.

Off to download White Boots next - what a lovely way to spend Christmas!

SorrelForbes · 30/12/2013 21:01

Have emailed you!

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