![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A friend of mine gave me Ballet Shoes and Theater Shoes as a Bat Mitzvah gift, a few years later that copy of Ballet Shoes lived in a cabinet under the sink in my bathroom for years. I will confess that I had not read any of the Shoe books when I saw You’ve Got Mail, probably around the time it came out in 1998. SALESMAN: How do you spell that? (cutaway to eyeroll from Tom Hanks at the ineptitude of his sales staff) Although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful…and it’s out of print.Īnd then she teaches him–and the rest of the world–how to spell it. KATHLEEN: Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theater Shoes…I’d start with Ballet Shoes first, it’s my favorite. WOMAN: I don’t know, my friend said my daughter has to read the Shoe books, so here I am.Īnd then Kathleen schools the hapless Fox Books salesman by telling him exactly what the Shoe books are and who wrote them. SALESMAN: The Shoe books? Who’s the author? Meg Ryan’s character Kathleen Kelly, recently out of a job, is sitting in the children’s department of big bad superstore Fox Books, when she overhears the following conversation: If you google “Shoe books” or “Noel Streatfeild,” quite a few of the hits on the first page of results are by book bloggers who discovered the Shoe books the first time they saw You’ve Got Mail. ![]()
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