Zaczarowane baletki

text: Noel Streatfeild

illustrations: Ruth Gervis

A classic novel about sisterhood, ballet and the search for your own way - the first Polish edition with original illustrations!

London, 1930s. One day, Professor Brown, an eccentric fossil collector, brings a baby miraculously saved from a sea catastrophe from a journey and puts it in the care of his granddaughter. A year later, he shows up at home with another girl - the daughter of Russians who fled the country from the revolutionaries and died shortly thereafter. The third, orphaned by Father Pusia, is sent by a messenger - and then sets off on another long journey.

Years pass, the children grow, the professor is not coming back. It soon becomes clear that the girls will have to help maintain the house. A ballet school is a chance to get a profession.

But it quickly turns out that the world of dance is not fair, and some girls prefer cars and planes to ballet. How will foster sisters cope with the challenges of school, stage, and life?

''Enchanted ballet shoes'' have been re-edited and translated numerous times, as well as film adaptations (Emma Watson starred in one of the main roles).

Paulinka straightened up and folded her hands.

- We, the three Fosyl sisters present here - she began with a church singing - swear and vow to do everything we can to make our name entered history, because it is only our surname and no one will say that we owe it to some grandparents.

She signaled to Petrovna, who quickly grabbed Pusia's hand and lifted it up.

''We vow,'' she said in such a low voice that it sounded very solemn. Then she whispered to Pusia, ''You also say'' we vow. ''

- We vow. Pusia tried to say the word in the same tone, but it didn't work out, it sounded like a cat meowing.