The first in the long list of Streatfeild books, this is the story of Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil. They weren’t born sisters, but after Gum (Great-Uncle-Matthew) collects them in his travels, they became the Fossil sisters. (Fossil because Gum used to collect fossils before he lost his leg and...
Although my mother was the ballet fan this was a book I read with my grandmother. We read it together several times and then I read it at least a dozen more times on my own. Later my daughter read it as well.I loved the story but it never made me want to be a ballet dancer.