(A made-for-television film of “Ballet Shoes,” starring Emma Watson, was created in 2007.) Her first novel, “Ballet Shoes” (1936), was a huge success and, like many of her other children’s books (“The Circus Is Coming,” “Tennis Shoes,” “White Boots,” “The Bell Family”), is still popular with young readers today. Streatfeild, who died at 90 in 1986, wrote several much-loved children’s classics, many of which drew on her own experiences of professional acting before she began to write. LONDON - Two collections of previously undiscovered short stories found among the papers of the prolific author Noel Streatfeild will be published by Virago Press.
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