New Releases by Noel Streatfeild

The author of children’s classic ‘Ballet Shoes’ delights with a best-loved story of ice skating rivalry...

Emily Huckwell spent almost her entire life working for one family. Born in a tiny Sussex village in the 1870s, she went into domestic service in the Burton household before she was twelve, earning £5 a year. She began as a nursery maid, progressing to under nurse and then head nanny, looking after two generations of children. One of the children in her care was the father of Noel Streatfeild, the author of Ballet Shoes and one of the best-loved children''s writers of the 20th century. Basing her story on fact and family legend, Noel Streatfeild here tells Emily''s story, and with her characteristic warmth and intimacy creates a fascinating portrait of Victorian and Edwardian life above and below stairs.

Near the end of the Second World War, Selina receives a parcel from America that contains a beautiful party dress and shoes. But her excitement turns to sorrow when she realizes she''ll never have a chance to wear the beautiful dress, until she and her cousins decide to organize a pageant.

Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake, come to England to live with their prim uncle and feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance - but her uncle forbids her to have anything do with ballet. How will she survive?

As her cousins find success singing and dancing on the stage, Gemma wins a coveted acting role in a local theatre production but may have to give it up when her mother makes a startling announcement.

Gemma and her cousins put together a show business act using all their talents, and quickly become a sensation, but when one has an accident, it could mean the end of the group.

Adolescence.

Tired of being world citizens, traveling with their brother on his tours as a violin prodigy, three children plot to find a home of their own and discover careers of their own in films and ballet.

SUMMARY: A dance teacher explains ballet techniques to her young pupils and includes in the lessons the history of ballet, stories of the great dancers, and discussions of famous ballets.

Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies.

Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies suddenly.

A collection of short stories and poems.

Proud of her unusual history, a nameless orphan faces with spirit the unbearable conditions of an early twentieth-century English orphanage.

Records the flow of the quiet waterway known as "Old Father Thames," describing the English landscape through which it passes and events which have made history on the river.