Ballet shoes. Noel Streatfeild

[Orangeanddemons]

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!

[ChristmasSocks]

I didn't read most of them until my thirties!

And still to find the last 'Gemma', I think (goodbye Gemma?)

Gemma and Sisters actually mentions Breasts. Breasts! There weren't any breasts in Ballet Shoes...

[UniS]

Madame, I have that copy too, and a more modern one as my old copy is falling apart and very fragile now. I think it used to be my aunts copy, so is some 20 years older than I am.

I wanted to be cool like Petrova and a bit of a successful dram lama like Pauline. I kinda managed both, I became a theatre lighting technician.
I also loved the follow up book "Curtain up" - about the Forbes Children at "the Academy" during WW2.

[SorrelForbes]

ChristmasSocks Try:

Amazon

ABE

[JanePurdy]

Sorrel have PMed you.

[SorrelForbes]

Have emailed you!

[beanandspud]

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

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

[depankrispaneven]

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.

[TheNightIsDark]

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

It's rather frustrating.

[ancientbuchanan]

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

[TheNightIsDark]

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

[teacherwith2kids]

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

[Islenka]

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....

[Grennie]

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

[SorrelForbes]

TheNightIsDark Did you get my email with the pdf?

[SorrelForbes]

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

[PrincessFiorimonde]

Thank you very much for emailing the pdf, Sorrel.

[TheNightIsDark]

I did Sorrell had completely forgotten! Thank you

[beatricequimby]

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

[BelleOfTheBorstal]

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[BelleOfTheBorstal]

I got the email

[BelleOfTheBorstal]

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

[TheNightIsDark]

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

[SorrelForbes]

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

[MirandaWest]

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.

[MirandaWest]

Thank you for my pdf Sorrel :)