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Antonia Barber

(b.1932)

Antonia Barber comes from a theatrical family, and began making up stories and plays in early childhood. After studying at the University of London, she became a playwright, and then a successful childrens author. A splendid storyteller, she has been writing childrens books for almost thirty years, and has a warm following among children and their parents.

Her previous books include The Mousehole Cat; a finalist for the Smarties Prize, winner of the 1990 British Book Award and Commended for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal; it was later made into an animated film, The Enchanters Daughter and Ghosts, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden.Antonia Barber lives with her three children in Kent.

Series

Dancing Shoes
   1. Lessons for Lucy (1998)
   2. Into the Spotlight (1998)
   3. Friends and Rivals (1998)
   4. Out of Step (1998)
   5. Making the Grade (1999)
   6. Lucy's Next Step (1998)
   The White Tutu (1999)
   7. Best Foot Forward (1999)
   8. Time to Dance (1999)
   9. In a Spin (2000)
   10. Model Dancers (2000)
   11. In the Wings (2000)
   12. Dance to the Rescue (2000)

Novels

   The Affair of the Rockerbye Baby (1966)
   The Ghosts (1969)
     aka The Amazing Mr. Blunden
   The Ring in the Rough Stuff (1983)

Collections

Tales from Grimm (1992)
Tales from the Ballet (1995)

Anthologies edited

Ballet Stories (2004)

Picture Books show