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What Can You Do With a Shoe? | 
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| Authors: Beatrice De Regniers, Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
Buy Used: $4.57
New (5) Used (10) from $4.57
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1557407
Format: Bargain Price
Media: School & Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 6 x 0.5
ASIN: B00009ZKWZ
Publication Date: August 31, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
What can you do with a shoe? If you can't come up with anything besides "put it on your foot," it's time to expand your horizons. In What Can You do with a Shoe, author and Caldecott medalist Beatrice Schenk de Regniers promotes a wide range of creative options for footwear, from putting a shoe on your ear to wearing it on your head to buttering it like bread or using apple jam instead. The same innovative approach to repurposing is applied to a chair, a hat, a cup, a broom, and a bed. Each time, a pageant of wacky possibilities is explored in rhyme, followed by an acquiescent nod to the traditional function of the object in question. Children and adults alike will love the anarchist thrill of ideas, from filling a hat with pickles to using a broom as a bear brush. Here, it is the pictures that make the book, as the illustrious Maurice Sendak displays his talent for delightful drawings once again. This edition is the first to include full-color paintings, which make the whimsical illustrations of a boy and girl playing dress-up even more lively and endearing, and the perfect accompaniment to a celebration of endless imagination and possibility. (Ages 2 to 7)
Book Description
What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it? These are samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up i their parents clothes. On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are enchanting watercolor illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Inspired by the infectiously funny pictures and text, children will soon begin to make rhymes of their own about everyday things. Richly imaginative and wholly in tune with children's high spirits and sense of play, What can you do with a show?, now issued in a new edition with full-color paintings, will be welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beware! Not a hardcover April 13, 2007
I love this book and was excited to finally find a hardback version. However when I received it, it was in fact a paperback version. Maybe the price should have clued me in on the binding but I assumed that Amazon was being truthful in their description. I have never had a problem with Amazon before in their product descriptions. If you don't mind a paperback version, this book is great. However, don't buy this assuming you are getting a deal on a hardback version.
 What do you do with a shoe and every thing else?? November 9, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"What can you do with a shoe?", Is a great little kids book. I really enjoy the type of books that get the children involved in reading with you and answering questions. This book does just that. It reads as though your child has answered the questions they ask, and they probably will! They are silly questions.I found my 3 year old was making up his own "What do you do with's?..." Very cute and lively, and entertaining to read. I enjoy Maurice Sendak's simple illustrations that go along with it.
If you like books that get your children involved, you may really like this one.
What can you do with a shoe? June 3, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Maurice Sendak's lively little pictures hit just the right note for this playful exploration. It's great for getting children involved ... "Do you put pickles in your hat?" "Noooo!" Lot's of fun to be had with this one.
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