Grandma's treasured shoes
Vass, Coral2019
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Through read-along, rhythmic text and colourful images of all types of shoes, we follow Grandma from her home country, wearing her ‘roaming shoes and weary shoes’, on a boat with her ‘salty but free shoes’ and into her new life where she wears ‘tiny shoes, school shoes, red shoes and blue shoes’. Yet her memories remain with the ‘scratched and scuffed shoes’ in the cupboard the ‘weary little pair that led her here’.
Main title:
Grandma's treasured shoes / Coral Vass ; illustrated by Christina Huynh.
Author:
Vass, CoralHuynh, Christine, illustrator
Imprint:
Canberra, ACT : NLA Publishing, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
36 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
A picture book story aimed at preschool and primary school aged children. The story of refugees in Australia is told in a non-fiction section at the back of the book, looking at the mass arrival of Vietnamese by boat in the 1970s as an example.This sensitively told story encourages children to understand the plight felt by refugees, in the past and today, and to appreciate the contribution that refugees have made in shaping this nation.
Audience:
Preschool
ISBN:
9780642279354 (hardback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
378063
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