Presents an illustrated history of shoes from ancient times to the present covering over 2,000 shoes. Details each shoe's material, heel and toe style, decorations, and fastenings. Also profiles the world's leading shoe designers and companies.
Sonny cannot wait to try out the wonderful red boots his grandma gave him, but when it refuses to rain, grandma has to create a little shower in the backyard.
The barn-tall old plainswoman Susannah DeClare braves deep snow and icy weather to fulfill her promise to deliver a load of handmade shoes to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, by Christmas.
The cobbler in a tiny Mexican town is so busy that he cannot make shoes for his daughter, so she makes her own shoes, which take her far away to a rich man's home where she must clean and cook all day. Includes a recipe for flan.
When Baby loses a shoe on a blueberry-picking trip, it becomes an object of curiosity for all the animals on Ptarmigan Mountain before being rediscovered by the family with a surprise inside.
