Noel Streatfeild Critical Essay | Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement

"Ballet Shoes" is a children's novel of the theatre written by somebody who knows all about stage training and little girls, apart from a delightful gift for inventing and telling a story that children will find absorbing, and their elders too most likely…. [Pauline, Petrova, and Posy] are nice, natural children, with a sensible nurse and a kind aunt-guardian; and every step of their progress is pleasant, amusing and very interesting, dealing as it does with facts that should prove very helpful to [aspirants] for life behind the footlights.

"Shoes and Ships," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1936; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 1816, November 21, 1936, p. 971.∗