Those Shoes
Illustrator
Noah Z. Jones
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Year
2009
ISBN
9780763642846
Pages
40 pages
Genre
realism
Format
picturebook
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they're the wrong size.
Grade Level
K-3
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Kinship care; Poverty; grandparent raising child; financial hardship
Main Character
boy
Race/Ethnicities
African American
Family Formation
grandmother
Awards
Bulletin Blue Ribbons, 2007
Choices, 2008
Reading to Understand: Children's Books to Use with Comprehension Strategies, 2010
School Stories: Selected K-12 Literature about the School Experience, 2014
Thickskinned, Thinskinned, The Skin I'm In: Books about Bullying, Teasing, Relational Aggression and School Violence, 2013
Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award, 2011-2012
Nominee
Young Hoosier Book Award, 2010-2011
Nominee
Keywords
shoes; grandmothers; generosity
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Boelts, Maribeth, "Those Shoes" (2009). Diverse Families. 942.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/942