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32 pp.
| Abrams |
March, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-8109-4236-4$$14.95
(4)
K-3
A shoemaker comes to town with extraordinary shoes custom-made to make a short man taller, a shy girl more outgoing, a tired man energetic--and a special pair for a giant who wants to eat the shoemaker. This well-shaped trickster tale is illustrated with unfortunately hard-to-read cut-paper collage--look for shoe tread marks on some of the overly busy prints--that brings out the shoemaker's loopiness.