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Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and not-for-children “shadow twin” that was published five years prior? Find out why it’s our favorite of the two in this week’s episode with our guest, author and bookstagrammer Wendy-Marie Chabot. 

Discussed in this week’s episode: 

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

The Whicharts by Noel Streatfeild

Little Dancer Aged 14 by Edgar Degas

Marie van Goethem

Wannabe: Confessions of a Failed Bibliophile by Badgwendel 

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Desert Island Discs on Noel Streatfeild

You’ve Got Mail (1998 film) 

Ballet Shoes (2007 TV movie) 

Umbrella Academy (2019- TV series)

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy

The Vicarage series by Noel Streatfeild

At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady

Black Swan (2010 film)

Ballet Shoes (1975 TV mini series)

Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC series)

Six Weeks (1982 film) 

Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland

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