A long-running favourite of my youth, I was inspired to re-read this when I saw the 2007 BBC version of this I decided to hunt up my copy to re-read. This is the story of three sisters, collected by a fossil hunter (GUM or Great Uncle Matthew) and left with his niece Sylvia (aka Garnie for Guardian...
A long-running favourite of my youth, I was inspired to re-read this when I saw the 2007 BBC version of this I decided to hunt up my copy to re-read. This is the story of three sisters, collected by a fossil hunter (GUM or Great Uncle Matthew) and left with his niece Sylvia (aka Garnie for Guardian)...
Originally published in both ENG and RO on my blog:http://vanillamoonblog.com/2013/02/22/review-ballet-shoes-noel-streatfeild/I must admit that what first got me interested in this book was seeing the movie with Emma Watson as Pauline in 2007. However, six years have passed until I actually decided:...
Originally published in both ENG and RO on my blog:http://vanillamoonblog.com/2013/02/22/review-ballet-shoes-noel-streatfeild/I must admit that what first got me interested in this book was seeing the movie with Emma Watson as Pauline in 2007. However, six years have passed until I actually decided:...
Pauline, Petrova, and Posy have chosen their own last name. They are Fossils, because their Great Uncle Matthew (GUM, for short) discovered them and shipped them home as babies, just as he did the fossils he collected. They were each orphaned separately--that is, they're not natural sisters--but n...
The self-dubbed Fossil sisters – Pauline, Petrova, and Posy – are orphans - each collected from far flung locales by a famous fossil hunter. The girls call him Gum, short for Great Uncle Matthew. Gum is not one to stay in one place for very long and so the girls are raised almost entirely by Nana ...
Almost certainly my favourite childhood novel. I read it and re-read it over and over again. My dream as a child was to be either a ballet dancer or an actress, so Ballet Shoes was perfect for me (as were other books by Noel Streatfeild, especially the Gemma series) and Lorna Hill's Sadlers Wells se...
It's always a risky thing, reading a book that you're too old for and that you didn't grow up with. Nostalgia hides many faults, and reading aloud makes any book charming that's enjoyed by the person read to, but not many children's books stand the test of being read by an adult, to an adult.I'd say...
I first read this book after seeing the BBC adaptation of the book that was broadcast in 2007. I found the book a delightful and loving story of three adopted sisters, each with their own dreams, brought together by one simple vow and the will to earn money to support their adopted family.I loved ho...
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