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White Boots
White Boots
White Boots
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White Boots

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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 good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn’t like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?

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Release dateNov 22, 2012
ISBN9780007380763
White Boots
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Noel Streatfeild

Noel Streatfeild, the plain middle child between two talented and pretty sisters, trained at RADA and acted for nine years before writing Ballet Shoes, an instant bestseller, in 1936. As vicarage daughter, factory girl, actress, model, social worker, writer, and crusader for good books, Noel touched many aspects of life. Her experiences enriched her stories, which were so popular that, by her eightieth birthday, she had earned herself the title of ‘a national monument’. She died in 1986.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Lovely and cosy and infinitely rereadable.
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    I love this book. When I was a kid, I literally read our copy to pieces. It fell apart. I taped it together, but that didn't keep.So I was thrilled to see it back in print with a spiffy new cover! Look at that!I'm reading it to my just-turned-seven year old niece right now. I'm surprised at how much she's taken to it, given that it's really a fairly old-fashioned book (and British besides!), with long, complex sentences; time taken to introspect the grownups; and mentions of weird things like pre-1970s English money, rationing, and skating figures. But she loves it! I guess it's not THAT much of a surprise, I loved it too at her age : )Just FYI, Streatfeild's books are a little formulaic - you have the talented child and the untalented (but secretly REALLY gifted child), the star and the shadow, and the family togetherness. It's a formula that works, and it's in full force in this book - the shadow discovers she has a real talent, the talented star discovers that she's not THAT gifted, the stage mother (aunt, really) gets hers, the poor family is helped by a combination of friendship and bootstraps, the various teachers worry about every aspect of the whole child - pretty much what you expect. Good story, satisfying ending, classic literature, you have to love it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Harriet, recovering from an illness, is advised by her doctor to learn to skate. At the rink, she meets Lalla, who is determined to become a skating star, and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. A really absorbing read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    One of my favorite books of Streatfeild's, Skating Shoes takes you into a world you won't want to leave. The English skating and testing system is explained very well-- all her books are like this, for example the stage license system in Ballet Shoes. The focus equally rests with Harriet and Lalla, two girls from very different backgrounds that are brought together by skating. Harriet, whose doctor suggests skating as a way to build her legs back up after an illness, is enchanted by Lalla, who seems a perfect skater. They become friends, and while Harriet and her brothers envy Lalla's talent and money, Lalla, an orphan who lives with her kind but impersonal aunt, envies Harriet's close-knit family. Harriet and Lalla both struggle with what they want, but the end of the book is satisfactory, though you'll wish it went on. This book is great for all ages, whether as a read-aloud for a six to eight year old or an adult. I loved this book, and I know that you will.

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