Wonderful Shoes
Age 4+
Picture Books
A timeless tale of tip-tapping click-clacking delight.
Wonderful Shoes is a joyful celebration of what happens when little feet find big shoes!
Creators
Emma Bowd is a Melbourne-based author and children’s literacy advocate.
A life-long love affair with shoes has led her on an exciting and successful international publishing journey, with fiction and non-fiction books for adults. Emma is delighted that her debut picture book pays homage to all the small children of the world, who think shoes are just as wonderful as she does!
Tania McCartney is an award-winning author, illustrator, editor and book obsessive.
The founder of Kids’ Book Review and The Happy Book podcast, she has over 50 books in print and is published in more than a dozen countries. Tania has over 30 years’ experience in publishing, book design, layout and typesetting, and her greatest joy is crafting books for children. A juvenile literacy ambassador, Tania’s awards include several CBCA Notable books, the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for Australia/New Zealand, and the CBCA Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature. She has lived in France, England and China, and currently lives in Canberra with her family, a forest of artwork and a mountain of books.
Reviews
ALL the shoe sounds feature throughout the book, making this a highly interactive read that is sure to get kids on their feet. Kids will have loads of fun reading along, making all the fun shoe sounds and pretending their stomping along in all the different shoes. The book is destined for story times and classrooms as well as homes…And McCartney’s details are just divine. She captures kid life AND parent life perfectly, infusing little family details that all add up to create an authentic world in paper form. Cups of steaming tea for Mum back from shopping, sandcastle flags made of sticks and drawing on the floor as only kids seem to want to do. I adore this special level of detail in a picture book. A beautiful and fun rhyming read-aloud, Wonderful Shoes will inspire you to pull on a pair of shoes and play.
Kids Book Review
These two key elements of words and pictures are perfectly balanced and combine to make an engaging, fun read that would be highly relatable for children and adults alike.Wonderful Shoes is perfectly suited to 0-6 year olds. It would make a beautiful addition to early learning centres, preschools, and preparatory classrooms as well as in the homes of little people.
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