Poppiedancer Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 Hi I have read all of the 'Drina' series and most of the 'Wells' series and the first two 'Satin slippers' Can you get any of these on the internet? Where? I looked on the amazon site but I couldn't find them. I love to read them! Any other series or books you could recommend? I'm 14. Love, Em Quote Link to comment
Guest Nanatchka Posted June 8, 2002 Report Share Posted June 8, 2002 You're a little old for it, but you might enjoy an old book by Noel Streatfield called "Ballet Shoes." (There are others in the series--I think I recall "Theater Shoes," among others.) You would find this in a library. You might also enjoy some biographies or autobiographies of dancers. Try Toni Bentley's "Winter Season" for a start. Quote Link to comment
Guest Helena Posted June 8, 2002 Report Share Posted June 8, 2002 You can get second-hand ballet (and other) books from a site called www.alibris.com. I have used them and found them efficient. It's American, but ships anywhere, though if you are outside the U.S. the postage is a bit expensive. In my case - I'm in England - the postage was more expensive than the books, but the books were cheap! I don't think anyone's too old for Ballet Shoes, but it's not as much about ballet as the title suggests - more about general theatrical training. Jean Estoril, who wrote the Drina series, also wrote a couple of books about "The Ballet Family", and Jean Ure might be worth looking at as well. Quote Link to comment
Guest Helena Posted June 8, 2002 Report Share Posted June 8, 2002 Slight correction: Jean Estoril also wrote under the name Mabel Esther Allen, so the books might be in that name. Quote Link to comment
dancingmeghan Posted July 9, 2002 Report Share Posted July 9, 2002 I love reading biographies on dancers. My favorites are Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography, Anna Pavlova-the Genius of Dance, and I second Toni Bently's book (Winter Season). And I would suggest Gelsey Kirkland book. But I've lost it! I just bought it and was just about to read it when we had to move everything for our new carpeting, and now, gone! . And then there's a fiction book that even my sister read (that's saying something!). It's called 'Dancer' but I don't remember the author. ~*Meghan*~ Quote Link to comment
Guest Calliope Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 There's a great book called "A Candle for St. Jude" which they actually made into a movie too (hard to find the movie though) Quote Link to comment
pleiades Posted July 19, 2002 Report Share Posted July 19, 2002 A Candle For St. Jude was written by Rumer Godden. I still have the paperback copy I bought when I was in high school bazillions of years ago. It's well worth searching out. Quote Link to comment
Kate B Posted July 19, 2002 Report Share Posted July 19, 2002 I don't think ANYONE is too old for 'Ballet Shoes' (or any of Noel Streatfield's books for that matter!) I am 25. Quote Link to comment
Juliet Posted July 19, 2002 Report Share Posted July 19, 2002 Oh, I'd forgotten about A Candle for St. Jude! Godden has also written at least two other ballet-oriented fiction titles with which I am familiar: Thursday's Children and Pippa Passes. We've discussed ballet-books before--you might try searching previous threads (we do it at least once a year!) Juliet Quote Link to comment
Guest DancerLegs Posted July 19, 2002 Report Share Posted July 19, 2002 Try looking under Books on Ebay.com - but I warn you, it is highly addictive! I have found many treasures there. One of my very favorite authors is Lee Wyndham - search Ebay and Alibris for her name. She wrote a number of ballet fiction novels for children and teenagers (but I still reread them even at my advanced age!) Quote Link to comment
Guest Ari Posted July 20, 2002 Report Share Posted July 20, 2002 There's a novel called A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson, which is about a young British girl in the early 20th century who yearns to be a ballet dancer. She winds up joining a company in South America, where she finds love as well as artistic fulfillment. It's a romantic, rather sensual story, but well written. It's out of print, but I found my copy in a library. Quote Link to comment
Danielle DeVor Posted July 20, 2002 Report Share Posted July 20, 2002 Also, a new author on the scene is a writer named Kat Corbett- she has written 2 books so far and both of them are really great. She is easily found on amazon or barnes and nobel Quote Link to comment
Guest alpusachni Posted July 28, 2002 Report Share Posted July 28, 2002 Two good places to find books are abebooks.com and half.com I found almost all the Satin Slippers and Drina books there. Which I had read as a child, but no longer had, and wanted to reread and keep. I also found a lot of dance bios there. Quote Link to comment
vagansmom Posted August 30, 2003 Report Share Posted August 30, 2003 I just finished reading "Corpse de Ballet" (ya gotta love that title) by Ellen Pall. It's a whodunit, one of whose mysteries is "Who spiked the rosin?" I thought it was really funny although I'm not sure it was intended that way. The author's biases are evident from the get-go and we're constantly reminded of them throughout the novel. And you'll guess the murderer right away. But I still liked it. Nice bit of fluff. Great for the beach. Quote Link to comment
Katharyn Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 Helena! You are officially my hero!!!! I've been unable to remember Jean Ure's name for years - I kept thinking it was Orr, or Ore... Thankyou! Now maybe I'll be bale to find that trilogy she wrote that I loved so much. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment
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