Theater Shoes

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Summary: Great Book For Young Dancers
Review: I love this book! I like to dance, and I think that the girls who are interested in this book will be dancers or actresses, etc. I think that it is a good story about children my age learning to love dancing and acting as I do, and I would definately recommend reading this book! I have read this book and Dancing Shoes, and I cant' wait to read Ballet Shoes! I am not sure if non-dancers or actresses would like this book, but I sure did!
It is about three children named Sorrel, Mark, and Holly, who, after a period of time, find that talent runs in their family. But Sorrel is rivaled by her cousin, Miranda, who thinks she is better than them. But they prove her wrong! Sorrel learns to love acting, while Mark sings, and Holly dances. I'll probably read it over and over again years to come!

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Summary: A Funkadelic Book!
Review: Noel Streatleild wrote Theater Shoes fantastically. There are so many things going on there is no time for a boring part. It is about three children named Sorrel, Mark and Holly. Their mother died when they were very young and their father is missing in Word War two. They lived in there grandfather's house,(On their Father's side.)When their Grandfather died they had to go live with their Grandmother, a retired actress.(On their Mothers side.) Sorrel, Mark and Holly have many obstacles to overcome while they are there. At the end everything turns out wonderfully! If you don't like books with sad endings and love books with happy endings then this book is for you!

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Summary: A delightful companion to Ballet Shoes; don't miss it.
Review: Sorrel, Holly, and Mark Forbes, whose father has disappeared in World War II, come from their grandfather's vicarage to live with their previously unknown grandmother, the great actress Margaret Shaw, in wartime London, and attend Madame Fidolia's school. They are "adopted" by the Fossil sisters (Pauline and Posy in California, Petrova flying in the war), and adjust to their talented cousins and new family. A vivid look at theatre life and London; delightful characters; a book that will enchant young and old. When will all this series be reprinted?

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Summary: Everyone needs to read at least 1'shoe' book.
Review: Theatre Shoes was the first of Noel Streatfield's 'shoe' book that I read. After I finished it, I went straight to the library to get more. I love reading about how normal kids [poor and orphaned] can become great at something. In this particular one Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are living with their grandmother, who has almost nothing, in London. This 'shoe' book [along with the other ones that I have read] talks about their troubles and how hard they work to earn money by preforming [even though they do not want to] and how each one of them finds their own special talent. You get to know the charecters so well that you feel like you are one of them. The events in the book seem so real. I just wish Noel Streatfield had written more than just 10 of them.

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Summary: Theater Shoes
Review: This book is about siblings named Sorrel, Mark, and Holly Forbes. After their grandfather dies they go to live with their grandmother because their mom is dead and their father is a sailor in the war and he is missing. In London with their grandmother they are forced to go to a stage school. At first they are upset about this but then they finds out they are part of a famous stage family. after a while they find that they have talents in the theater and start to enjoy the stage school. I really enjoyed this and thought it was really interesting. But if you don't like theater you might not enjoy it as much.

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Summary: Re-read it as an adult!
Review: This marvellous book I know by the title Curtain Up, which I've had since I was about nine years old. It is a perennial favourite on my book shelf - although written for children, there is plenty in it to keep even an adult reader gripped until the last page. Noel Streatfeild's sense of humour for a start and the gritty realism of her descriptions of poverty still hold strong today. And who can't identify with Sorrel, Mark and Holly's when they yearn for an attache case, not wanting to be different from other children at school? We've all been there, to some degree or another.
There is something infinitely comforting about slipping back between the covers of a book you enjoyed as a child. A highly enjoyable book.

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Summary: Theater Shoes
Review: Three young orphans, Sorrel, Mark, and Holly Forbes are orphaned when their father is missing and their mother dead. Sorrel wants to become famous like all the other Warrens, but Miranda, her cousin competes for acting entries. Mark truely wants to become a sailor, but his grandma wants him to become an actor. Holly, is to young to realize what she wants except for a leather brief-case like all the other students. One day, they find out there real desire.