This story begins with Charlotte and anordinary shoe shop on a narrow London street. It'sa shoe shop everyonehas walked pastathousand times before, including Charlotte, an ordinary little girl who likes to stop to look at the ballet shoes in thewindow.Charlotte's biggest dream in the world is to learn balletbut without a ballet lesson to her name, nor a pair of ballet shoes to dance in, her dream seems very unlikely. But the shoe shop is not quite asordinary as Charlottefirst thought and the mystical story-telling shopkeeper tells herto keep believing in her dreams. Remembering the shop keeper's magical words, and with her great determination,Charlotte gets her ballet shoes and sees her greatest wish granted!

Another enchantingstory from a collection of colour illustrated booksby Hannah Frank. llustrated by Fred Falk (USA).