What Can You Do With a Shoe?

By Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689812310
• ISBN13: 9780689812316
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.4" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Book Was Exactly as Described

This cute little book arrived in great condition, although not until the very last day.

Absolutely Delightful! (ages 2-7)

With pictures by Maurice Sendak (you know, Where the Wild Things Are) this book is absolutely delightful! A whimsical, 60/70ish feel... oh and English it also seems English, as in England, to me. (Although it's not. Not 60/70ish, since it was first pubished in 1955 and recolored in 1997. And it's not English, the author was born in Lafayette, IN.) But most of all it's delightful! And don't let the fact that it was first published over 50 years ago stop you from purchasing this book. I read it to my child in the summer of 2009 and he LOVED it. This is one of those wonderful timeless books. The author AND the illustrator of this one definitely knew children. The brother and sister in this book act as impetuously and as delightfully as every child I know. And when I paused, my four-year-old had no problem filling in exactly the right words. I am so, so glad I came across this book. And I would recommend it for ages 2-7 and their parents.

What do you do with a shoe and every thing else??

"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?

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.