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Book ReviewsTheater Shoes |
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Book: Theater Shoes
Written by: NOEL STREATFEILD |
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Ack! Dying of cuteness and happy endings!
Rating:
2 / 5
This story was cute. That's about all I can say. My friend loves it to death and made me read it, but... ack. I found this story predictable and dreadfully boring. Maybe this story was great in 1945, but these days there are hundreds of wonderfully written, awesome books for kids and pre-teens that you can read instead.
The characters are just... boring at best, annoying at worst. You're supposed to love to hate the nasty characters, and grow attached to the heroes. I was almost thankful when Miranda was a little brat to Sorrel.
This story is just too cutesy. It's very anticlimatic, and I saw the ending coming 150 pages away. Anyway, maybe all you eleven year olds will love it, but... anyone older will gag. Trust me.
Theater Shoes
Rating:
5 / 5
This book is about siblings named Sorrel, Mark, and Holly Forbes. After their grandfather dies they go to live with their grandmother because their mom is dead and their father is a sailor in the war and he is missing. In London with their grandmother they are forced to go to a stage school. At first they are upset about this but then they finds out they are part of a famous stage family. after a while they find that they have talents in the theater and start to enjoy the stage school. I really enjoyed this and thought it was really interesting. But if you don't like theater you might not enjoy it as much.
Re-read it as an adult!
Rating:
4 / 5
This marvellous book I know by the title Curtain Up, which I've had since I was about nine years old. It is a perennial favourite on my book shelf - although written for children, there is plenty in it to keep even an adult reader gripped until the last page. Noel Streatfeild's sense of humour for a start and the gritty realism of her descriptions of poverty still hold strong today. And who can't identify with Sorrel, Mark and Holly's when they yearn for an attache case, not wanting to be different from other children at school? We've all been there, to some degree or another.
There is something infinitely comforting about slipping back between the covers of a book you enjoyed as a child. A highly enjoyable book.
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