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Wintle's Wonders

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Wintle's Wonders

Wintle's Wonders is a children's novel about a theatrical troupe by Noel Streatfeild. It was first published in 1957, and in 1958 was published in the US as Dancing Shoes, a title which has also been used in more recent UK editions.^[1] A number of Streatfeild's children's novels have undergone similar retitling, linking them to her most successful book, Ballet Shoes.^[2]Wintle's Wonders draws on the author's own acting experience, and revisits the type of theatrical establishment seen in her adult novels The Whicharts and It Pays to be Good.^[3]

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As the book begins, Rachel Lennox and her adopted sister Hilary are living with Rachel's mother. Rachel's father, George Lennox, was a budding film star, but died just as his career was taking off, when the children were seven. As a result, the family is not well off; they must take in boarders to make ends meet. Hilary's mother was a dancer, and so Rachel and her mother are determined that Hilary will also become a ballerina. Hilary does have a talent for ballet, but is not at all interested in it.

Their mother dies when the girls are ten, just before Hilary's audition for the Royal Ballet School, and the girls go to live with their Uncle Tom (the

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild (24 December 1895–11 September 1986), known as Noel, grew up in a vicarage family, the second of five children, fascinated with ballet and an avid book reader. She was dubbed rebellious in every school she went to as a child.

During World War One, she worked in the kitchens of St Mary’s Hospital, which tended to the returning injured troops, and later as a munitions worker at The Woolwich Arsenal.

Post war she went on to study acting at RADA. She pursued an acting career for over ten years, before turning to writing after her father’s death.

She began by writing books for adults, until a request came for a children’s book about the theatre, where she could share her personal experiences.

Ballet Shoes (1936) was her first children’s novel and it became an instant success. It was followed by over 80 books, including TennisShoes (1937), The Circus is Coming (1938, also as CircusShoes), TheHouseinCornwall (1940), CurtainUp (1944, also as TheaterShoes), PartyFrock (1946, also as PartyShoes), The Painted Garden (1949, also as MovieShoes), WhiteBoots (1951, also as SkatingShoes), The Bell Family (1954, also as FamilyShoes), Wintle’sWonders (1957, also as DancingShoes), Apple