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Ballet Shoes (BBC Children's Classics)
- Narrated by: Rosemary Leach, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Literature & Fiction
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- Lulu
- 02-05-21
fabulous!
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....
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Sandy
- 18-03-11
Twee, but still a classic
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.
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- Eva
- 10-11-21
Charming & a good introduction to theatre
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.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Shespoke
- 07-11-15
Fantastic Story :Ballet Shoes
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.💗💗💗💗💗💗🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
1 person found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- bjohnston
- 11-03-09
Careful when downloading
Careful, I made the mistake of downloading this title from audible.com for the kids. This is an abridged "dramatized" version.
The Unabridged version is only available through AudibleKids. However, on that site the abridged version is not available. I had thought the two sites were the same and since there is only one version on each site, I thought they were the same. So be careful, don't click to quickly. They are not the same, one is 2 hours long, the other 6 hours. For the same price of course. Makes perfect sense right?
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Hermione
- 12-06-21
Wonderful!
Such an enjoyable and fun adaptation of a beloved book! Definitely recommend this for fans of all ages of the Shoes books! Glad I happened upon this somehow.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Christine
- 21-09-18
Charming!
Being a huge fan of BBC dramas and the book Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, I couldn't help but love this dramatization of the well-loved children's classic. It sticks remarkably close to the original story and the acting is very good; my one quibble was I thought the girls were a bit too giggly at times, but that was just my personal opinion.
If you too like BBC dramas and Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes, then do not miss this performance!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Michele
- 06-08-12
Somewhat charming but highly improbable story!
If you are a fan of this tale from childhood, I'm sure you'll enjoy this adaptation of "Ballet Shoes". That being said, the storyline is highly improbable to the point of absurdity. Coming from a professional dance background myself, I found the whole dance school set-up to be preposterous. It is definitely a dated book. The actors present the play well however I did not find the character of Posy very likeable at all. I could only recommend this book as a curiosity.
1 person found this helpful