Shoes | A Best Picture Book Review

Shoes is a book for very young children. It has a bouncy rhythm and bright, colorful, fun pictures. It is not a story per se, but a celebration of, well, shoes, as you might imagine ... but despite the apparently dry subject and bland title, there is nothing dry or bland about this book!

The reader and audience get to go on a rollicking adventure, following every sort of shoe accompanied by a delightful illustration of an appropriate accompanying activity.

There are shoes to buckle, shoes to tie, shoes too low and shoes too high ...

Shoes for slipping, shoes for sliding, high-top shoes for horseback riding ...

Pages and pages celebrate every kind of shoe, and the exuberant activities of the wearers! It is impossible not to giggle when reading this book, a giggle you'll feel all the way down to your very own skinny-boned, wiggly-toed feet!

Believe it or not, I wrote all those quotes without even opening my copy of the book for reference. Yes, that is how many times I have read it! You'll find yourself reading it that many times too, with your child delightedly dancing out each activity to the rhythm of the book.