My Best Shoes

They wear play shoes, gray shoes, run all day shoes . . . twinkling in the light shoes, sparkling in the night shoes . . . dirty brown and gold shoes, scratched and scuffed and muffed shoes. In this colorful play rhyme, vibrant paintings bring to life an energetic, multicultural cast of children and the shoes they romp and stomp in.

James E. Ransome’s work has appeared in nearly fifty books for children, including The Creation by James Weldon Johnson, a Coretta Scott King Award Book; Uncle Jed’s Barbershop, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; The Old Dog by Charlotte Zolotow; How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort; and This Is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore and Jessica Alexander. His highly acclaimed illustrations for Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told By A Freeman Of Color won the NAACP Image Award, and his traveling exhibit “Visual Stories” is featured in libraries and museums throughout the country. He teaches illustration at Syracuse University and lives in Rhinebeck, NY, with his family.