![]() ![]() He visits infrequently and stays only long enough to drop off his latest collection of fossils or orphaned infants. Gum collected each of them as babies, depositing them in the large house run by his great-niece, Sylvia, and her former nanny, and disappearing again. Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil aren’t sisters by birth they are adopted by an eccentric explorer known to them as as Gum-that is, Great-Uncle Matthew. In Ballet Shoes, we meet our first set of plucky children bound for the stage (whether they like it or not). ![]() Her experience in the world of the theater became fodder for the “Shoe” books, her most popular works and the ones for which she is best remembered nowadays. Before that, she worked as an actress for ten years-a somewhat unusual profession for an English vicar’s daughter at that point in time. She had already published a handful of novels for adults by this point, beginning in 1931. So let’s talk, already!īallet Shoes was Noel Streatfeild’s first children’s novel, published in 1937. ![]() Finally! I didn’t want to post this while so many of you were unable to load the site. ![]()
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