Best Ballroom Dance Shoes for Women & Men - Comfortable Latin, Salsa, Tango Shoes with Suede Sole - Perfect for Dance Classes, Performances & Social Dancing

I bought this copy of Dancing Shoes as a replacement for a copy I had read to pieces (paperbacked books for children are not, for some reason, made to last a lifetime). I have loved Ms. Streatfield's books since I first encountered Ballet Shoes when I was 10 years old. It is true that every one of her books follows the same plot -- a number of related children working toward careers: one is competent and achieves expected success, one is ordinary, and one is an unexpected and unlooked for genius (after spending most of the book as the one whom no one believes will amount to anything.) The setting for Dancing Shoes is a school for children trained to dance in troupes on the stage, where two adopted sisters are taken to live with their Aunt who runs the place, and her obnoxious, spoiled daughter who gets a satisfying and hefty face plant at the end that even at 10 years old I thought "Serves her right." A good book from another era, starring normal children; no vampires, no aliens, no anorexia, divorce, murder or horror.