Mama's Shoes
A Picture Book
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
This loving tribute to the bond between mother and child is a soothing picture book for any toddlers experiencing separation anxiety.
This heartwarming story from bestselling illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton and award-winning author Caron Levis is a celebration of hard-working moms everywhere—and the children who love them.
Perry knows all of Mama’s shoes. She knows that the zip-zup shoes are for skipping and swinging in the park. She knows that the pat-put shoes are for splishing and splashing in the rain. And she knows that no-shoes are for bath time and bedtime.
But one morning Mama puts on click-clack shoes, and Perry wonders what these new shoes are for. When Mama drops Perry at Nan’s house, and the click-clack shoes take Mama away for the whole day, Perry decides she hates these shoes!
Perry later hides the click-clack shoes . . . and all of Mama’s shoes, just in case. Mama then explains that the click-clack shoes bring her to work in the morning, and they will also bring her home to Perry every single evening—clickety-clack fast!
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Perry and her mother spend a lot of time together, so much so that Perry knows all of her mother's shoes by heart. She's even learned to anticipate the day's activities by their sounds, from the "swish-swish" of slippers to the "pat-put" of puddle-jumping boots. One morning, the unfamiliar "click-clack" of new shoes across the kitchen floor has the child admiring her mother's high-heeled pumps, until she learns that it's the start of "the new routine." At first, Perry pushes back with tears and tantrums and even attempts to hide the shoes. Helped by Nan, her kindly caregiver, and equipped with her mother's assurance that her "go-to-work shoes" transform each afternoon into "hurry-home-to-you shoes," Perry eventually finds her groove. Levis skillfully relates the push-and-pull negotiations between a young child and a parent returning to work, and Brantley-Newton's digital artwork renders the related range of emotional expression. Ages 3 7.
