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Her first book for children, it was illustrated by the author's sister, Ruth Gervis. [2] Ballet Shoes was a runner up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best British children's book by a British subject. [3] [a] (Streatfeild won the award later for The Circus Is Coming. [4] [b])
Noel Streatfeild, 1936. Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE / ˈ n oʊ ə l ˈ s t r ɛ t f iː l d / (24 December 1895 – 11 September 1986) was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series (though some books made references to others).
The Charm School is a 1988 spy thriller novel by American author Nelson DeMille, set in the Soviet Union. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In a 2010 FBI investigation, striking similarities were noted between a real-life case and DeMille's book.
Curtain Up [1] is a children's novel about a theatrical family by British author Noel Streatfeild.It was first published in 1944. To remind potential readers of Streatfeild's highly successful first novel, Ballet Shoes, it is often retitled Theatre Shoes, or Theater Shoes in the US.
Participating theaters promoted the film with a trailer and a poster earlier that August, and Random House promoted the "Shoe Books", in association with the film. [14] Ballet Shoes was released on DVD in North America, Region 1, on 2 September 2008. [15] The film premiered on Christmas Eve on TV ONE in New Zealand. It was broadcast in Canada ...
Andrew Pyper, the Canadian author behind thrillers like Lost Girls and The Demonologist, has died, PEOPLE can confirm. He was 56. The bestselling novelist died of cancer complications on Friday ...
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