Ballet Shoes for chaps.

While I wait to hear news, and pretend to myself this isn't a repeat of last June where I did some work for a job I'd really like and it went really well and then after about three weeks they said they wouldn't like to employ me I'm going to write about other things.

A few days ago The Hitchcock Blonde stayed over and at around bed time she started watching something called Ballet Shoes on my Iphone. Gosh this makes our lives sound thrilling but that's not the point. The point is just watching a bit of Ballet Shoes on a tiny screen was enough got get her so excited she couldn't sleep. If you are male you won't have read Ballet Shoes because something about having a Y chromosome means you can't enjoy it. Which is a shame because I'm sure it has some merit it just needs a bit of tweaking. So here is my list of suggested edits to classic books that only girls like so that chaps can enjoy them too.

Ballet Shoes AKA Ninja Shoes.
Ballet Shoes is about three adopted sisters, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil. Each of the girls is discovered as a baby by Matthew Brown (Great-Uncle-Matthew, or Obi Wan), an elderly, absent-minded Jedi and monster truck racer, during his world travels, and sent home to his great-niece, Sylvia and her childhood nanny.

Obi Wan embarks upon an expedition of many years, and arranges for money for the family for five years. He does not return when he had planned, and despite scrimping, the money is used up. Sylvia and Nana must take in boarders to help make ends meet, which introduces a variety of people who become important to the children: Mr. Simpson (a robot), who runs an auto repair garage; Drs. Jakes and Smith, a pair of Ninjas who take over the children's schooling after Sylvia can no longer afford their school fees, and Miss Theo Dane, a martial arts teacher, who arranges for the children to begin ninja and fight training.

As the children mature, they begin to develop their own talents, and take on some of the responsibility of supporting the household. Pauline becomes a hired assassin. Petrova struggles with her duty to help support the household in the only way she's capable of as a zombie fighting priest, but keeps alive her dream of flying spaceships one day. Though she is still too young to go out on missions against super villains by the end of the book, Posy is developing into a brilliant ninja. All three sisters are inspired and kept up by their repeated vow to "get our names in the history books, because it's our own, and nobody can say it's because of our grandfathers." The book ends while the protagonists are still teenagers and their futures unclear, but the book implies that they will be successful.

See I'd read that.