![]() ![]() Often from my own life or other peoples'. Most recently I wrote Tales from the Ballet and then, for Puffin, the Dancing Shoes series about Lucy Lambert who wants to be a ballerina. My picture books for younger children include The Mousehole Cat about a fisherman and a cat who live in my Cornish cottage (see Favourite Place). Now a new film version is planned, as well as a stage musical version. My second, The Ghosts, written two years later, was a best-seller and was filmed as The Amazing Mr Blunden in 1972. I wrote my first children's novel in 1966. The African Queen with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart 'Every Time You Say Goodbye' by Ella Fitzgerald ![]() Her novel, The Amazing Mr Blunden, was runner-up for the Carnegie Medal. Antonia is well-known for such best-selling picture books as The Mousehole Cat (with Nicola Bailey) and Catkin (with J P Lynch). Antonia Barber really knows about ballet - her daughter studied ballet from the age of three and attended the Royal Ballet School junior associate classes at Sadler's Wells. ![]()
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