About This Book:
This big kid is wearing his first pair of big-kid shoes, the kind with laces! Even though they’re a little on the roomy side—shoes to grow into, of course—he knows he can take care of them. Except they keep falling off!
Not to worry, he’ll just tie them up again, because he knows how to tie those loops! But wait a second, where did that darn shoe go?
Nothing is ever truly easy when you’re just starting something new; but, just like with any stage in childhood, whether it’s making your first steps, or going down the really big slide, with persistence, doing anything scary or overwhelming quickly becomes a piece of cake! And before you know it, you’re a BIG KID!
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Important lesson about perseverance
The illustration style reminded me a bit of Taro Gomi, since there are a lot of solid color shapes without pencil lines set against clean backgrounds, and the little boy’s expressive face is also composed of simple shapes.. The bright red shoes are a nice touch. The merry-go-round looks like the ones I loved in the 1970s, so might be a little anachronistic (and unsafe!), but are definitely recognizable.
This is a great book for toddlers as well as early elementary school students, and offers a great lesson in diligence and perseverance. Add this to a motivation library that includes Singh and Kaur’s Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon, Leonard’s Gobi: A Little Dog with a Big Heart, and Uegaki and Leng’s Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin as well as the classic favorite, Watty Piper’s 1930 The Little Engine That Could.
