Ballet Shoes cover art

Ballet Shoes

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection.
Listen to your selected audiobooks as long as you're a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for £5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Ballet Shoes

By: Noel Streatfeild
Narrated by: Full Cast, Rosemary Leach
Try Standard free

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

About this listen

 When Sylvia and her old nurse Nana agree to keep house for Gum, they know they will be looking after his fossil collection while his away on his travels. But imagine their surprise when one day he brings them something else - three baby girls whose names all being with 'P'! Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are not really sisters - even their surname is invented. The girls decide to 'put our name in the history books because it's our very own', and enrol at the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. Each Fossil uses her individual talents to achieve their joint aim in this captivating story, now a modern children's classic.© and (P)1995 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Classics Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Music & Performing Arts
All stars
Most relevant
We have all loved listening to this story. Despite it set in an earlier age it echoes scenarios common to all childhoods; being different, finding your place in the world, when life is unfair, character flaws, money trouble, meeting people that can help us, being together even though we are apart....

fabulous!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Ballet Shoes is a wonderful story and I would recommend it to the people whom love and adore Ballet.

The only thing I would change about it is the chapters. I would let somebody say ' Chapter one or chapter two.💗💗💗💗💗💗🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Fantastic Story :Ballet Shoes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I love 'Ballet Shoes', but this adaptation is terribly twee. All the characters are impossibly jolly. A poor realisation of Streatfield's wonderful novel.
Update (2018): having now listened to this many times, I utterly refute my previous review and have changed my rating from 2 to 4. It's charming.

Twee, but still a classic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
My 3 girls, all under 9 years old, enjoyed this production a lot. The dramatisation was a fresh listening experience after the normal type of narration. It was a great introduction to participation in theatre.
It is mostly just like a radio story. The book doesn’t bring out deep themes or developments. But still enjoyable.

Charming & a good introduction to theatre

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
. I like the book so much and when I heard this I was so happy and overwhelmed

The voices and dramatics

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews