Ballet Shoes gets 21st-century update from Carrie Hope Fletcher
(The Guardian Books News)

Noel Streatfeild´s children´s classic about orphaned sisters preparing for a life on the stage is being reimagined by the writer, actor and internet starBallet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild´s classic tale of three adopted girls hoping for - or dreading - a life on the stage, is to be reimagined for the modern era by writer and actor Carrie Hope Fletcher.Endorsed by Streatfeild´s estate, Fletcher´s novel will, like Ballet Shoes, follow three adopted children. But while Ballet Shoes´ Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are brought together when they are adopted by the eccentric elderly palaeontologist they know as Great Uncle Matthew, Fletcher´s children are found by the eccentric pebble collector Great Aunt Maude. They live in a rickety old London theatre, rather than the home on the Cromwell Road inhabited by the Fossils, and Fletcher has also made one of them - the ballet dancer of the three - a boy. Continue reading...