Shoe Baby - Hardcover

Joyce Dunbar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844280055 ISBN 13: 9781844280056

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd

Synopsis

A colourful and charming picture book from a mother-and-daughter team! "There once was a baby who hid in a shoe, and had learned how to say 'How do you do?' In a shoe you might think there is not much to do, but this very same baby went to sea in that shoe!" And so the baby's journey continues - but where are his parents? Could the two giants looking for a baby and a shoe be them? With a great read-aloud text and a winsome hero, this is a picture-book delight! From the illustrator of "Flyaway Katie" and the author of "Baby Bird".

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Dunbar is the author of well over 30 books for children. These include "Mundo and the Weather-child", (shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Fiction Award) and "Mouse and Mole", which was televised as a series. Joyce lives in Norwich. Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. The author/illustrator of "Flyaway Katie" and "Dog Blue", this is her first collaboration with her mother, the distinguished author Joyce Dunbar.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 1–In a shoe you might think/There is not much to do, but for the baby who is hiding in it, it becomes a boat to sail away in, a car for going to the zoo, a plane, and even a place to hold a tea party for the king and queen. How do you do? asks the delighted child as he travels the world. But when Papa laments his lost shoe and Mama cries over the loss of her baby, the youngster grows and grows until he grows Right out of that shoe! With his gleeful Peekaboo!' the three are reunited. The pictures breathe life into the brief text. The whimsical mixed-media cartoon illustrations are saturated with color. Baby's shoe, a brilliant red with decorative buttons and blue-and-white striped laces, stands out on a page of other fancy footwear. The zoo houses a giraffe with blue polka dots, a blue monkey, and a blue elephant sporting red shoes. Flying birds bear designs of hearts, stars, and pinwheels. This bit of fantasy, paired with Beatrice Schenk de Regniers's What Can You Do with a Shoe? (S & S, 1997) may encourage youngsters to come up with unusual possibilities for the objects around them.–Marianne Saccardi, Norwalk Community College, CT
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN 10: 1844280055
• ISBN 13: 9781844280056
• Binding: Hardcover