Eleri Glass

This book elicited smiles and memories. The character of the story does not have a name. She is a girl who is going shopping with her mother for shoes. She is drug along and from the illustrations doesn't feel in the moood for this task. The facial expressions rendered Ashley Spires are very expressive.

There are many shoes in the stores and the girls looks up, up and up at all the selections. And, she finds the single most important shoe for her. It is a pair of Mary Janes that are bright red. The shoes are not the typical brown shoes for school, or sneakers for the play ground, rather they are shiny and beautiful and seem to sing a song to the girl.

Her mother chooses the lace ups, while the girl pleads for the red ones while four boxes of lace up shoes in various colors are waiting to be placed on her foot. When the red shoes are finally placed on her feet, she feels elevated and so very happy as it feels as though a breeze lifts her up while wering the red ones.

And to the girls surprise, her mother purchases the red shoes for her. At night, she feels the thin paper in the box holding the shoes inside. It is time for bed. Still excited that she actually has the shoes, she sleeps with them on her feet.

There is nothing intellectual about this book, but at the end of a day when I'm tired, it is a joy to allow myself to go back in time remembering how I felt like the little girl who wanted the pretty shoes rather than the functional ones.

My sisters and I went shopping at the end of August, before school began. We obtained two pairs, a pair of sneakers, and a pair for school. Both were very functional. But when I grew old enough to make my own shoes, I chose the non-functional ones!… (plus d'informations)