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Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Pauline, was rescued from a shipwreck as a baby. She longs to be an actress. Petrova, is a Russian orphan. She is happiest when playing with cars and engines. Polly was handed over with just a pair of ballet shoes to her name. If she could, she would dance all day! But one thing they do have in common i ...Show more
Ballet Shoes (HB) by Noel Streatfeild
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
Pauline, Petrova and Posy are found as orphaned babies in different parts of the world by eccentric fossil collector and explorer Gum. He adopts them, takes them to his London home and leaves them in the care of his niece Sylvia and the family Nurse. Then off he goes to continue his exploring, saying th ...Show more
Ballet Shoes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are sisters - with a difference. All three were adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric and rich explorer who then disappeared, leaving them in the care of his niece Sylvia. The girls grow up in comfort until their money begins to run out and nobody can fi ...Show more
Ballet Shoes for Anna (Essential Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake come to England to live with a prim uncle and a feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance -- but her uncle forbids her to have anything to do with ballet. How will she survive? For Anna, everything takes second place to her burning desire to dance. ...Show more
Circus Shoes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Gus the clown is Peter and Santa's only living relative, and escape to the circus seems a better idea to them than an orphanage. But Gus will keep the children only if they make themselves useful - and they have to fight hard to really belong to the circus.
Dancing Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
$27.00 AUD
Category: Classics
High kicks and low blows all round in this fantastic story about life at stage school, by the author of Ballet Shoes - perfect for young fans of TV shows like The Next Step and Stage School It's 1957 and Rachel and Hilary are sent to live with their ambitious aunt who runs a stage school, training a tro ...Show more
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Persephone Classics
Noel Streatfeild is best known as a writer for children, but had not thought of writing for them until persuaded to re-work her first novel as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million copies by the time of her death. Saplings (1945), her tenth book for adults, is also about children: a family with four o ...Show more
Tennis Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Tennis Shoes is one of the wonderful 'Shoes' collection of adventures for children by Noel Streatfeild.There is no doubt about it - the Heath children have tennis in their blood. Their grandfather and father before them had been top players, and the twins are champion material. Then Nicky - cheeky, rebe ...Show more
The Bell Family (Vintage classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Well, little people, what's the news?' You can meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then there's all the children - practical Paul, dancing Jane, mischievous Ginnie, and finally the baby of the family, Angus, whose ...Show more
Theatre Shoes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Every family has its secrets, but it was a huge surprise to the three young Forbeses, fresh from a country vicarage, to discover that their grandmother was a famous actress. Sent to live with her in bombed-out, wartime London, they soon discovered that they were expected to follow in the family footstep ...Show more
White Boots by Noel Streatfeild
$15.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years)
The author of children's classic 'Ballet Shoes' delights with a best-loved story of ice skating rivalry..."If you pass your inter-silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much ...Show more
White Boots (Essential Modern Classics) by Noel Streatfeild
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Modern Classics
Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla and her new-found love of ice-skating! "If you pass your inter-silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she ...Show more
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