New Shoes, Red Shoes - Softcover

Susan Rollings

3.59

58 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841215961 ISBN 13: 9781841215969

Publisher: Orchard/Watts Group, 2001

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"Two shoes, small shoes, off to get some new shoes!" This simple and very young picture book, with its bouncy, rhyming text, large illustrations and lovely large type follows a little girl and her mother on their journey to buy some new shoes. On the bus and through the park to the shoe shop - there are different kinds of shoes every-where. Back home again with the lovely shiny new shoes, and then it's party time. These are dancing shoes! The rythmic, rhyming text and bold colourful images make this a perfect first picture book.

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About the Author:

Susan Rollings lives in Middlesex. The mother of two, this is her first children's book.

From Publishers Weekly:

There's nothing like a smart new pair of red party shoes to put spring in a girl's step, and British author/artist Rollings covers the whole sweep of the experience. The trip to the shoe store provides the vivacious, moon-faced girl with opportunity to reflect on the diversity of footwear in the world: "Flat shoes, summer shoes./ Friends with very pointy shoes." The momentous purchase of crimson Mary Janes (with sharp-looking green flower buckles) occupies the center of the book, and then comes the gratifying payoff for this conspicuous consumption: showing off the shoes at a rollicking birthday celebration. The heavily repetitious rhymes lack the luster of patent leather, but Rollings's full-bleed gouache illustrations (which alternate between single- and double-page formats) glow with saturated, Crayola-like color, and her protagonist's pride radiates off the page. Ages 3-6. (Mar.)
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