Big dreams

Ballet Shoes

Pauline, Petrova and posy fossil are sisters- all three adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric and rich explorer....who then disappeared, leaving the min the care of his niece Sylvia.

The girls grow up in comfort and wealth until their money begins to run out and nobody can track Great Uncle Matthew down. At first Sylvia takes in lodgers but soon even that's not enough. Things look bleak until they hit on an inspired idea: Pauline, Petrova and posy will take to the stage. But it's not long before the Fossils learn that being a star isn't as easy as the first thought...

Ballet shoes by Noel Streatfeild shows the ambition it takes to succeed. The three Fossil sisters are ambitious, and they want to be famous, they want to put their names in the history books. They face all their challenges with dignity, and they keep their head up when they fall. They have decided from an early stage what they want to do with their life, and they do it, because they are ambitious. They worked their hardest to achieve a happier life for themselves and their family, because they had big dreams.