Title:
Theater shoes
Author:
Streatfeild, Noel, author.
ISBN:
9781984852052
Personal Author:
Edition:
2019 Random House Children's Books edition.
Physical Description:
300 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom as Curtain Up by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, in 1944, and subsequently in the United States as Theater Shoes; or, Other People's Shoes by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1945." -- Title page verso.
Contents:
Tea with the Bishop -- In the train -- Number 14 -- Grandmother -- Bees and honey -- The academy -- The first day -- Cousins -- An audience -- News -- Mostly about Mark -- A swollen head -- Christmas day -- First night -- Holly -- Audition at the B.B.C. -- News for Sorrel -- Ariel -- Rehearsals -- Plans -- The end of the story.
Abstract:
During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
