Product Description

Here are ‘shoes to skate in, shoes to skip in, shoes to turn a double flip in ’ . . . all worn by four tousle-headed active young children. ‘Illustrations keep all the action with the skippers, divers, and doers. Story hour groups will be checking out each other’s footwear after hearing this rollicking rhyming paean to shoes.’ —SLJ.

A Reading Rainbow Selection
Children's Books of 1986 (Library of Congress)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2235511 in Books
• Published on: 1986-09-25
• Released on: 1986-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Library Binding
• 32 pages

Review
"A rollicking rhyming paean to shoes." -- -- School Library Journal

"Joyce's pictures are animated, energetic, and warmly colored." -- -- ALA Booklist

About the Author
Elizabeth Winthrop is the author of numerous books for young readers.She lives in New York, NY.

William Joyce is the illustrator of Some of the Adventures of Rhode Island Red (see page 76) by Stephen Manes.He is also the author/illustrator of a George Shrinks, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, and Bently & egg.He lives in Shreveport, LA.

Customer Reviews

Shoes is a wonderful read aloud book for youngsters.
As a media specialist, I have thoroughly enjoyed using SHOES with my first graders and kindergarteners. The children love to take off their shoes and wiggle those toes. They also enjoy anticipating the next page. This book is a must for any elementary library and for the home.

Cute book
This book features a variety of children showing various rhymed type of shoes - too low, too high, shoes to buckle, shoes to tie - until the very end, the best shoes of all, your bare feet.

Very cute, cute illustrations, cute text, simple enough for the youngest child - love it.

One problem. For a book published in the late 80s, there's not much in the way of diversity in this book. In fact, there isn't a single child (or adult) in the book that I could point to and positively say "That kid isn't white".

That doesn't make the book bad, or racist - it just is very visible. Although I suppose it's possible all the kids are supposed to be part of the same family, that's not clear to me.

Wonderful Art and Text
Our 2 year old has loved this book for a long time now. The text is very cute and the artwork is just beautiful. Highly reccomended.