Baby Shoes - Hardcover

Slater, Dashka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582346844 ISBN 13: 9781582346847

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2006

Synopsis

Baby loves his brand-new white shoes, taking them all over the neighborhood while his frantic mom chases behind him. But he just can't resist stomping through puddles, squishing fallen plums, and dancing in fresh paint. It isn't long before those white, high-jumping, fast-running shoes are speckled and spotted with every color of the rainbow. Dashka Slater's delightful, rhythmic text and Hiroe Nakata's jaunty illustrations are the perfect match for this playful tale of fun, sun, and fabulous shoes!

About this title

About the Author:

Dashka Slater is the author of the picture book Firefighters in the Dark. She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and son. Baby Shoes was inspired by her son's first pair of shoes, which stayed white only a few minutes longer than the ones in this story. www.dashkaslater.com

Hiroe Nakata has illustrated several picture books for children. This is her first book for Bloomsbury. Originally from Japan, she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* PreS. Gleeful after choosing new white shoes at the store, Baby (actually a toddler) leads his pregnant mama on a merry chase. As they head home, Baby playfully explores the park, where grass, plums, fresh crosswalk paint, and more add their distinctive hues to his increasingly "polka-dotted, / puddle-stomping, / rainbow-romping, / go-go-going shoes." In the text, loping lines of rhymed couplets are interspersed with staccato sections, followed by a refrain that reins in the pace: "Baby says, 'Uh-oh!'/ Mama says, 'Oh, no!' / But those shoes just go, go, go." The verse may at first seem a bit challenging to read aloud, but the changing rhythm creates a pleasing pattern and gives listeners places to chime in. Setting a sunny tone for the excursion, Nakata's airy watercolor artwork sympathetically depicts an increasingly scruffy toddler and his tired but resilient mother. With a buoyant tone in both verse and illustrations, this book will be a fine addition to story hours and, given young children's affinity for shoes, a great conversation starter. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1582346844
• ISBN 13: 9781582346847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Nakata Hiroe