Three best-loved contemporary classics for girls: 'Mary Poppins', 'White Boots' and 'Ballet Shoes for Anna' in a gorgeous slipcased gift set.
Ballet Shoes For Anna:
Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake come to England to live with a prim uncle and a feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance - but her uncle forbids her to have anything to do with ballet. How will she survive?
White Boots:
Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn't like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?
Mary Poppins:
When Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, Jane and Michael's lives are transformed beyond belief. Mary takes them on the most exciting and magical journeys they've ever had. But she has only promised to stay until the wind changes...
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Noel Streatfeild was born in Amberley, Sussex in 1895. Her first novel, Ballet Shoes, is her best-known book but she went on to write many well-loved books for children, including Circus Shoes which won the Carnegie Medal in 1938. In 1983 she was honoured for her contribution to children's publishing when she was awarded an OBE. She died in 1986.
More about Noel StreatfeildP.L. Travers was born in 1899 in Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and was one of three sisters. She was brought up simply, but traditionally, with a cook upon whom much of the character of Mary Poppins is based. She began her writing career in Australia, publishing many poems, then came to England and wrote for newspapers in Ireland and England. She
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