Grandma’s Treasured Shoes

By: Coral Vass
Illustrated by: Christina Huynh
Genre: YBC - Picture books
Published by: National Library of Australia
Published: 1 Mar 2019
ISBN: 9780642279354

Description

Grandma has oodles and oodles of shoes!

Walking shoes, dancing shoes, fancy and plain, Grandma has a shoe for every occasion. So why are these scratched and dusty old ones so special?

Through read-along, rhythmic text and colourful images of all types of shoes, we follow Grandma from her home country, wearing her roaming shoes and weary shoes’, on a boat with her ‘salty but free shoes’ and into her new life where she wears ‘tiny shoes, school shoes, red shoes and blue shoes’. Yet her memories remain with the ‘scratched and scuffed shoes’ in the cupboard — the ‘weary little pair that led her here’.