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White Boots (1951)

af Noel Streatfeild

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Nine-year-old Harriet Johnson goes ice-skating to strengthen her legs after an illness, befriends Lalla, the orphaned daughter of a great figure skating star, and finds encouragement to become a champion.
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    Alex af Tessa Duder (Aquila)
    Aquila: Set in the 1960s but written in the 1980s, this modern successor to Noel Streatfeild's tales of high achieving kids is a wonderful read.
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    Four Truths and a Lie af Lauren Barnholdt (moonshine19)
    moonshine19: Yeah, this is really different, but you'll love 'em both.
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Who doesn't love Noel Streatfeild's "Shoes" books? Whether you read the British version (White Boots) or the American (Skating Shoes), either is just as cute. Ten year old Harriet is a frail child, recovering from a long illness that has left her legs "cotton-woolish" and weak. Her doctor prescribes exercise to rebuild her muscles. He knows just the sport, ice skating. There at the rink Harriet meets a girl her age, skating sensation Lalla. Lalla's father was a world famous skater as well but died in an accident. His sister is tyranically determined to make her niece the next star on ice. Seeing that Harriet is a good influence on Lalla's training, Harriet soon starts taking ice skating, dance and fencing lessons to keep Lalla engaged. I think you can see where this is going.
This is a story of opposites attract. Lalla is beautiful and wealthy. Harriet is plain and poor. Lalla's skating prowess prompts her to be shallow and selfish. Harriet's lack of privilege leaves her hungry for friendship. Harriet has a loud, loving, and large family while Lalla only has her nanny, her prim and proper aunt, and a home-schooling governess.
This is also a story of acceptance. Just because you have a world class athlete for a father doesn't mean you have inherited the genes. All Lalla's life she has been pushed into believing she had to be the skater her father was. She had been given every advantage to fulfill that expectation except she lacked one thing. Talent. Along comes a nobody of a girl. No fancy clothes. No world class father. No money to buy premier lessons. But Harriet did have one thing. Ability.
As an aside, times have changed. In today's world it is incredibly rare for a sibling to start a paper route just to support his sister's recovery. What kid does that? Alec is a smart brother. He knows exactly how much he will earn from delivering papers and he also knows how much the skate rental will cost. His business sense drives him to save the two extra shillings to put towards his father's failing business. Again, what kid does that? I enjoyed the side story of the garden very much. ( )
  SeriousGrace | Dec 26, 2023 |
This is my favorite of the Shoes books, because it tosses aside the usual format. ( )
  jollyavis | Dec 14, 2021 |
I have always loved Noel Streatfeild's books and as a child I got my library to ILL them for me or hunted through second hand book stores to find all of them. She tells the perfect "girls stories". I was always able to find one character in each book that was my favorite. They definitely stand up to re-reads. ( )
  KateKat11 | Sep 24, 2021 |
Originally published as White boots (1951) ( )
  ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 |
Harriet has been ill, and is ordered by her doctor to take up ice-skating. She meets and befriends Lalla, trained from babyhood for stardom, and they make friends. Harriet is poor and Lalla rich, but gradually Harriet realises the benefits to her loving family. A nice story, although Harriet's brothers seem a bit artificial and Lalla, at times, rather too spoiled to be real.

Still, a good plot in gentle Streatfeild style, and eminently re-readable, although the ending is - typical for this author - rather abrupt.

This book is also published as 'Skating Shoes'. ( )
  SueinCyprus | Jan 26, 2016 |
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