Noel Streatfeild

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1937
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Bell Family

1 - The Bell Family // Family Shoes (Jan-1954)
2 - New Shoes (Jun-1985)

Gemma

1 - Gemma (Jan-1968)
2 - Gemma And Sisters (Jan-1968)
3 - Gemma Alone (Jan-1969)
4 - Goodbye Gemma (Jan-1969)

Shoes

Traveling Shoes ()
Ballet Shoes (1937)
Movie Shoes (Jan-1949)
Dancing Shoes (1957)
Party Shoes (Sep-2008)

Vicarage

1 - A Vicarage Family ()
2 - Away from the Vicarage // On Tour: An Autobiographical Novel of the Twenties ()
3 - Beyond the Vicarage (Jan-1971)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Tennis Shoes

    Reissued in ''A Puffin Book'' series of best-loved children''s classics, this is a sharp and funny story that follows in the footsteps of Ballet Shoes, Theatre Shoes, Circus Shoes and Party Shoes by Noel Streatfeild.

    In TENNIS SHOES the Heath ...

  • Ballet Shoes

    Shoes

    FAME, FORTUNE, AND FUN! When three English orphans -- Pauline, Petrova, and Posy -- join the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training to help out their new family, they have no idea it's going to be such hard work! Vowing to make a name for ...

  • Circus Shoes // The Circus is Coming

  • Theater Shoes

    Curtain's up! When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, the renowned actress Margaret Shaw, she enrolls them in the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. Sorrel objects. The academy will provide only...

  • Movie Shoes

    Shoes

    For the first time ever in the United States, the "Shoes" books are available as ebooks! Go behind the scenes of a movie in this beloved classic!Life is tough for the Winter family in London, with little money and Dad out of work. Luckily, Aunt Cora ...

  • Puffin Essentials Ballet Shoes

    Pauline, was rescued from a shipwreck as a baby. She longs to be an actress. Petrova, is a Russian orphan. She is happiest when playing with cars and engines. Polly was handed over with just a pair of ballet shoes to her name. If she could, she would...

  • The Bell Family // Family Shoes

    Bell Family - 1

    If you love Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes, you’ll adore The Bell Family.'Well, little people, what's the news?’Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks.Father is a reverend; Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then t...

  • Dancing Shoes

    Shoes

    Wintle's Little Wonders? Life at Mrs. Wintle's School of Dancing is a big change for Rachel and her sister, Hilary. Tap lessons, musical comedy, singing lessons, acrobatics -- it's a far cry from the quiet country life they led before Mother died....

  • The Growing Summer // The Magic Summer

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    BY THE AUTHOR OF BALLET SHOES
    with beautiful illustrations by Edward Ardizzone

    ''A joyous, sunlight book. For me, the best Noel Streatfeild of all'' HILARY MCKAY

    ''""You have a whole wing of the house to your...



  • Gemma

    Gemma - 1

  • Gemma And Sisters

    Gemma - 2

  • Gemma Alone

    Gemma - 3

    Gemma finds the transition from being a glamorous child movie star to working as a student at a school for the performing arts requires hard work, but she also enthusiastically joins her cousins in honing their musical, dancing, and acting talents fo...

  • Goodbye Gemma

    Gemma - 4

  • Beyond the Vicarage

    Vicarage - 3

  • Thursday's Child

    A thrilling, classic children''s adventure with a courageous heroine, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.

    Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn''t really an orphan - each year...

  • Far To Go

    Margaret Thursday, the unforgettable heroine of Thursday''s Child stars in this classic children''s adventure from Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.When Margaret Thursday lands a role as a child actress at a well-known London thea...

  • When the Sirens Wailed

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  • Theatre Shoes

    Theatre Shoes is part of the wonderful ''Shoes'' series of adventures for children by Noel Streatfeild.
    Every family has its secrets, but it was a huge surprise to the three young Forbeses, fresh from a country vicarage, to discover that their gr...

  • White Boots

    "The author of children''s classic ''Ballet Shoes'' delights with a best-loved story of ice skating rivalry.""If you pass your inter-silver, I''ll tell Aunt Claudia that I don''t want to work with you any more.""Harriet is told that she must take up ...



  • Ballet Shoes for Anna

    "Having lost their parents in an earthquake, Anna and her siblings live with their prim uncle and feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance - but her uncle forbids her to have anything to do with ballet. How will she survive?For Anna, everything takes se...

  • New Shoes

    Bell Family - 2

    Reverend Bell and his family leave their beloved London parish for Crestel New Town, and the Bell children--Paul, Jane, Ginnie and Angus--set out to transform this unfriendly village into a close, loving community....

  • Children On The Top

  • Party Shoes

    Shoes

    If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again.
    Set during and after the second World War, this classic n...

  • Saplings

    The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the country, the family, like so many others, slowly disintegrates. Told from the perspective of the children, Saplings is “immensely readable . . . ...

  • Skating Shoes

    A skating champion. An unlikely friendship. A fateful pair of white boots. Read the classic that has captivated generations! 

    It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson’s doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her f...

  • Christmas with the Chrystals & Other Stories

  • Apple Bough

    A wonderful story of music and family and finding home, from the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.

    The Forums are a musical family, and one child, Sebastian, shines out as a prodigy. He is a brilliant violinist and when his talent is r...

  • Caldicott Place

    From Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes, comes a moving story of unexpected friendships and new beginnings.

    When their father is injured in an accident, life changes for the Johnstone family. Unable to afford their ...

  • Aunt Clara

    Sixty-two-year-old Clara leads a virtuous life. She spends all her time helping others and she always puts her friends and family first. It’s a shame that nobody, including her four siblings and their myriad of children, ever stops to say thank you...



  • Caroline England

    Born into a very traditional family, Caroline Torry’s childhood is ruled by patriarchy and propriety. She grows up in the gorgeous Milton Manor which has belonged to her family for generations, but the pressure to produce a male heir gradually beco...

  • Grass in Piccadilly

    Once fashionable and plush with flowers, post-war Mayfair has lost its dazzling charm. But that didn’t stop Charlotte Nettel and her husband Sir John from swapping life in the quiet northern countryside to convert their roomy Mayfair townhouse into...

  • I Ordered a Table for Six

    Adela Framley seems to be a perfect citizen. She’s a proud mother, she runs a charity for homes which have been bombed and wants to hold a dinner party in aid of the charity’s patron, Gardiner Penrose. But are there dark motives behind her good a...

  • It Pays to Be Good

    Flossie Elk was an astonishingly beautiful baby. But whilst her mother Fanny encouraged Flossie to use the power of those dazzling looks, her greengrocer father George stood by the belief that “Beauty is a lure of Satan.”When the First World War ...

  • Judith

    'Passionately, as other children collect shells, stamps or bus tickets, Judith collected kind words and kind looks dropped by Mother.'Twelve-year-old Judith has been brought up in Europe by her mother, governess and highbrow uncles and aunts. She’s...

  • Luke

    Andrew and Freda Dawson are enjoying a happy, second marriage in the English countryside with their collective brood of three children. But their idyllic existence is shattered when Freda finds her husband dead one evening . . .It becomes apparent hi...

  • Mothering Sunday

    Seventy-year-old widowed Anna Caldwell likes to be alone, happy to potter around her garden chatting to her friend Miss Poe. However, the bliss of Anna’s peaceful lifestyle causes her five children much dismay.Jane, the eldest and most organised, g...

  • Myra Carrol

    Myra Carrol has it all " beauty, kindness and a loving marriage. One afternoon she is searching through her barn for objects which could be of help in the Second World War, when she comes across an old picture of herself . . .She is immediately tra...

  • Parson's Nine

    Christmas is disrupted by the death of a distant relative in the vicarage . . . but with death comes a substantial inheritance for David, Catherine and their nine children.Catherine resolves to send her eldest children, Edras and Tobit, to a preparat...

  • Shepherdess of Sheep

    Vibrant and vivacious, Sarah Onion takes it upon herself to find employment when she is orphaned at nineteen. She becomes an integral part of Charles and Ruth Lane’s household as governess to their four small children, but at what cost? The First W...



  • The Silent Speaker

    Helen Blair is famous for her dinner parties. She hand picks her guests to ensure that every evening is a success, and tonight’s will be the most memorable dinner party of all . . . An hour after the sparkling evening comes to a close, one of the ...

  • The Whicharts

    Young, naive and too kind for her own good, Rose falls for a young Brigadier with a colourful history. Soon after their fling ends he drops a baby off on her doorstep begging her to raise it for his latest mistress.Tender hearted Rosie nurtures the b...

  • The Winter is Past

    Picture a gorgeous English country house, surrounded by manicured lawns and sprawling oak trees. This is Levet, where the Laurence family have lived since the 18th century.Once full of children and excitement, the only Laurences left at Levet now are...

  • Circus Shoes

    For the first time ever in the United States, the "Shoes" books are available as ebooks! Travel with the circus in Noel Streatfeild's beloved classic.Peter and Santa are orphans. They know they have an uncle, Gus, who travels with the circus, so they...

  • Noel Streatfeild's Holiday Stories

    ''Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it'' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS'' WAR
    ''Such rewarding reading'' Daily Telegraph


    In this captivating new collection, there are stories fo...

  • Osbert

  • The Theatre Cat

  • Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories

    'The wonderful Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories collects, for the first time, nine festive stories originally written for annuals and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s . . . As ever, Streatfeild's children always feel utterly real and relatable. A...

  • When the Siren Wailed

  • Away from the Vicarage // On Tour: An Autobiographical Novel of the Twenties

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    Vicarage - 2



  • Traveling Shoes

    • / Historical
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    Shoes

  • A Vicarage Family

    • / General Fiction
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    Vicarage - 1

    A Vicarage Family is the first part in a fictionalized autobiography in which Noel Streatfeild tells the story of her own childhood, painting a poignant and vivid picture of daily life in an impoverished, genteel family in the years leading up to th...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Noel Streatfeild has published 51 books.

Noel Streatfeild does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When the Siren Wailed, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Noel Streatfeild, Tennis Shoes, was published in January 1937.

Yes. Noel Streatfeild has 4 series.
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