Noel Streatfeild

Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.

During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.

Proud of her unusual history, a nameless orphan faces with spirit the unbearable conditions of an early twentieth-century English orphanage.

 

Written by the author of the beloved classsic, Ballet Shoes (1936), this wonderful picture book about a cat who lives in a theatre is available once again after 70 years!

Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatre as a mouser.

He loves watching the dancers, but he's scared of the mice he's meant to catch!

What's a ballet-loving cat to do?

Rarely seen since it's publication in

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