Ruby Red Shoes
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Are you ready for the coziest book of the year, with the charm of a modern-day Beatrix Potter? Pull up your comfiest chair, snuggle under a warm blanket, and discover the peaceful, enchanting world of Ruby Red Shoes and her grandmother, where friends are always welcome.
Ruby Red Shoes is a thoughtful bunny who lives in a colorful painted caravan with her beloved grandmother. She is gentle and kind and cares for all living things. She loves strawberry jam, peppermint tea, long baths, and her wonderful pet chickens!
Children just learning to read on their own will treasure this beautiful story that they can read on their own or enjoy as a read-aloud. Teeming with whimsy, Ruby's mindful, tranquil world embraces the reader like a warm hug. And bedtimes will be gentle, sweet moments, as young readers see Ruby and her grandmother tucked in with a book and a favorite quilt, watching the magical stars twinkle in the velvety sky. Once you've made friends with Ruby Red Shoes, you'll have a friend for life.
"As a student of pleasant companionship, mindful existence, and living one’s best life, Ruby Red Shoes excels, paws down."—Publishers Weekly
"Everything about this book asks readers to go slowly, to put aside the expected, and to savor the simplicity of the moment."—Kirkus
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Named for various shoes "the color of radishes" that she's worn since she was a baby rabbit with very cold feet, Ruby Red Shoes stars in a series in Australia. In soothing, succinct prose and dainty pencil and watercolor drawings, Knapp's introductory volume explains how the Mary Engelbreit esque bunny is being raised by her wise grandmother, Babushka Galina Galushka, to be "an aware hare" kind to herself and others, and a good steward of the planet. But rather than offer a narrative arc that might test these qualities or any kind of narrative arc at all (aside from a fleeting moment when Ruby imagines she's in a bathtub that takes off on an adventure) the author opts for a lifestyle approach. Pages extol the "prettily painted" caravan that's her home, her lovely things ("generous teacups for hot drinks, feathery quilts to snuggle up in"), her expertly tended garden, and a flock of "jazzy" chickens who adore learning French ("oeuf = egg" says the blackboard in the al fresco classroom). As a student of pleasant companionship, mindful existence, and living one's best life, Ruby Red Shoes excels, paws down. Ages 3 7.
