![]() ![]() This book was not historical fiction when it was published, as much of it takes place in 1943, just one year before its publication, but it reads as such today. ![]() Though there are many similarities to the formula used to write Ballet Shoes, this book is also its own entity, with its own strong characters and narrative voice. ![]() ![]() The main characters of this story, Sorrel, Mark, and Holly Forbes, are the grandchildren of a famous actress and also the beneficiaries of scholarships funded by the three Fossil girls, (who are now quite grown up and doing very well for themselves, despite the hardships of World War II.) Favorite characters from Ballet Shoes, including Madame Fidolia, Miss Jay, and Winifred, figure heavily into this story as well, but the Forbes children are very much their own personalities, and their yearning for their father who is missing in action, their uncertainty regarding their strange grandmother, and their rivalry with stuck-up cousin Miranda are the driving forces behind the plot. Though it came out eight years after Ballet Shoes, it is essentially a sequel, focusing on the same dance academy at which Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil studied in the 1930s. Theater Shoes is Noel Streatfeild's fifth book for children, and it was originally published with the title Curtain Up in 1944. ![]()
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