Three best-loved contemporary classics for girls: `Mary Poppins', `White Boots' and `Ballet Shoes for Anna' in a gorgeous slipcased gift set.

Ballet Shoes For Anna:
Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake come to England to live with a prim uncle and a feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance - but her uncle forbids her to have anything to do with ballet. How will she survive?

White Boots:
Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn't like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?

Mary Poppins:
When Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, Jane and Michael's lives are transformed beyond belief. Mary takes them on the most exciting and magical journeys they've ever had. But she has only promised to stay until the wind changes...

This book is part of a book series called Essential Modern Classics .

There are 720 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers .

P. L. Travers was born in 1899 in Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and was one of three sisters. Noel Streatfeild wrote for children and adults, including the famous "Shoes" series. She was also a stage actress, a book critic and a lecturer on children's books. Noel Streatfeild died on 11th September 1986.