Although skating shoes is completely wonderful. 'Noel Streatfeild wrote ballet shoes and skating shoes and theatre shoes and. Noel Streatfeild was recommended by Meg Ryan's character in the 1998 film You've Got Mail. Noel Streatfeild also wrote 12 romance novels under the pen name 'Susan Scarlett'. A Granada production was adapted by the screenwriter Heidi Thomas and starred Emilia Fox as Sylvia Brown, Victoria Wood as Nana, Emma Watson as Pauline Fossil, Yasmin Paige as Petrova Fossil, Lucy Boynton as Posy Fossil and Richard Griffiths as Great Uncle Matthew.

In 2007 it was made into a feature-length film for BBC One (UK).

Thursday's Child was adapted for television by the BBC in 1972.īallet Shoes was made into a 6-episode television series by the BBC in 1975. It was filmed in Bantry ( Bantry House), in Ahakista and near Kilcrohane on the Sheep's Head Peninsula in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. In 1968 London Weekend Television produced a six-episode serial of The Growing Summer, with Wendy Hiller as Aunt Dymphna. AdaptationsĪunt Clara was filmed in 1954 with Margaret Rutherford in the title role. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983. For her third book and third 'Shoes' novel, The Circus Is Coming (later published as Circus Shoes), she won the 1938 Carnegie Medal. I distrusted what came easily and so despised the book.' It was a commended runner-up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best British children's book, and it launched a successful career in writing for children. She recalled, 'The story poured off my pen, more or less telling itself. Her first children's book was Ballet Shoes, published by J.

Skating Shoes by Noel Streatfeild