The Guardian view on Christmas shows: they are fairy tales for our times
From Ballet Shoes to Wicked, stories of female empowerment and friendship are triumphing on stage and screen "I'd start with Ballet Shoes first. It's my favourite," Meg Ryan's character urges a mother in a bookstore in Nora Ephron's 1998 romantic comedy You've Got Mail. Never out of print since it was first published in 1936, Noel Streatfield's "Story of Three Children on the Stage" has been a favourite with generati…