PICTURE BOOKS
Fowler, Gloria

The Red Shoes

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sun Young Yoo. A shoemaker dies, leaving her daughter a pair of beautifully crafted red shoes. An envious queen gives the girl three days to surrender her shoes--or her feet will be cut off. Though the text needs copyediting, its girl-power spin on the original Hans Christian Andersen tale is creative. The black-and-white pen-and-ink art--roomy, flowing, fastidious--on creamy paper is seductive.

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