Ballet Shoes

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What to expect

Penguin presents the audio download edition of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, read by Janet Streatfeild.

'I wonder . . . if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they'd choose to be?'

Pauline longs to be an actress.

Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines.

And if she could . . . Posy would dance all day!

But when their benefactor Great-Uncle Matthew disappears, the Fossil girls share a future of a dazzling life on stage, where their dreams and fears will soon come true . . .

Critics Review

  • A masterpiece

    Telegraph
  • ‘Ballet Shoes is one of my all-time favourite children’s books – and you don’t have to be a ballet fan to enjoy it.’ – Dame Jacqueline Wilson

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