Ballet Shoes for Anna

by Noel Streatfeild

Book Overview

Book Description Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake, come to England to live with a prim uncle and a feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance -- but her uncle forbids her to have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006753981
• ISBN13: 9780006753988
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

I still love this book!

This is the sort of book that if you found an old copy in an op shop, you'd buy it even though you already have one, then walk around with it in your handbag looking for someone to give it to. Ok, I might be the only one nutty enough to actually do that, but it would make you feel like doing it.

Great book!

I am a huge fan of Noel Streatfeild's work. Ballet Shoes for Anna is an exciting and different style of writing that I enjoyed. Instead of Streatfeild's usual way of writing from the performer (usually girls), this book is mostly in the point of view of Anna's two brothers, Francesco and Gussie, who are trying to get Anna her needed ballet lessons without their Uncle Cecil, who they moved in with when their parents died, knowing, who believes dancing to be a sin.