75. Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
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
Wannabe: Confessions of a Failed Bibliophile by Badgwendel
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Desert Island Discs on Noel Streatfeild
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
Ballet Shoes (1975 TV mini series)