Not Helping the Cause. "The Snow Queen" by Mardi McConnochie. [review]
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2003-05
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Armstrong, Judith
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Australian Book Review
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When Armstrong was about ten, she used to devour the books of an English children's author named Noel Streatfield. The most famous was called "Ballet Shoes", which took young antipodeans onto the stage and into the wings of another world, the London theatre scene. Galina Koslova, a Russian-born émigrée to South Australia and the heroine of "The Snow Queen", gives "Ballet Shoes" to a step-granddaughter, correctly designating it a classic. Armstrong wonders whether Mardi McConnochie’s novel was designed to fill the gap left on adult bookshelves by long-abandoned copies of "Ballet Shoes", even if our reading requirements have matured.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing
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Armstrong, Judith 2003. Not Helping the Cause. Review of "The Snow Queen" by Mardi McConnochie. 'Australian Book Review', No 251, May, 51.