The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Boelts, Maribeth

Those Shoes

32 pp. | Candlewick | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-2499-6 $15.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Noah Z. Jones. Jeremy yearns for expensive high-tops, but his grandmother doesn't have the money. When he spots the shoes in a resale shop, he buys them even though they're too small. Whether children are on the shoe-owning or the shoe-envying side of the economic line, they'll sympathize with Jeremy's problem. Jones uses watercolor, pencils, and ink to depict a multiethnic urban neighborhood.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2007