Author: STREATFEILD. NOEL
Title: Ballet Shoes
Description: London, Argo/ Decca Record Company. 1979, 1st Edition. Boxed Set. Audio Book, "Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage" was published by Dent in 1936 and was the runner up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal of the Library Association.When Sylvia and her old nurse Nana agree to keep house for Gum, they know they will be looking after his fossil collection while his away on his travels. But imagine their surprise when one day he brings them something else - three baby girls. Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are not really sisters - even their surname is invented. The girls decide to 'put our name in the history books because it's our very own', and enrol at the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. Each Fossil uses her individual talents to achieve success - -Pauline as an actress, Posy as a Ballet dancer and Petrova to follow her interests in engines and airplanes and cars. This Audio version from Argo [SAY110] abridged by Noel Streatfeild and read by Moira Shearer is on 2 double-sided Audio Cassettes . Ex Library set, but cassettes fine in scuffed cardboard sleeve. Very Good +.

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