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Snap for Famous Five, Narnia, Malory Towers and St Clare’s plus E. Nesbit books. Most of my books came from school and local libraries. My parents did encourage us both to read.

A thread about the ballet “Ballet Shoes” has sparked off an enthusiastic discussion of the book, then moved to the Pamela Brown novels about theatre and the Antonia Forest novels. I thought a children’s book thread might be fun. Books I devoured as a child - the Alison Uttley Sam Pig and Little Grey Rabbit books when I was very small, the Cynthia Harnett historical novels, Jane Lane historical novels, all Noel Streatfeild books, all the Pamela Brown novels, the Drina Dances and Wells series, Ruby Ferguson’s Jill pony books, the Chalet School, Mary K Harris books and a wonderful book called Sabina about an American orphan. I can’t find it anywhere. Little Women and the sequels plus others by Louisa May Alcott, the Susan Coolidge Katy and Clover novels, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and the sickly sweet Pollyanna series plus the Anne of Green Gables series. Oof, I’m done unless someone else mentions other books I have forgotten.

Me too. I actually bought the reprint series a few years ago.

Another series that I devoured like sweets!

I’ve never forgotten how Winifred has to go on stage because Pauline has been behaving badly backstage. I used it to point out to our dds that they must never behave like that. I’m pleased to say that they never did and it was appreciated by the professionals that they occasionally were onstage with as they were always asked back.

In addition to auditioning for Pauline, my dd thought about auditioning for Posy but they wanted the level above Inter Foundation and confident pointe which my dd wasn’t then so she didn’t go for it. Then we found out later that the pointe scenes were intercut with another dancer so our dd lost out twice over.

Our daughter auditioned for Pauline in that version and there were many girls there. A lot didn’t make the first cut because they were too old but what none of them knew was that Emma Watson had already been cast as Pauline. Why they went ahead with the audition is beyond me.

Unbelievable!

Fingers crossed!

Oh goodness! Good luck, @Angela Essex!

Congratulations!

My pleasure. They do a few teen/adult classes too which might help you get your class hours up. Good luck.

What about Harlow Ballet, Angela? They used to do adult ballet classes.

A friend in America used to see them regularly and rave about them. She even sent me a programme from one performance.

Thank you. I can’t say anymore but I really appreciate it.