Shoes Books

This is the only book you'll ever need on how-to make doll shoes. It's comprehensive,and teaches you how to make shoes for any kind of doll, any size. Loaded with hundreds of illustrations...

This book was wonderful from the moment I opened it. I used to dread making doll shoes, or having to pattern a foot to fit Amercian Girl sized shoes. But now I know more then I ever thought I would.
The ideas presented here are clear and inspiring and very easy to learn from. From slippers to boots to sneakers, everything is here. Learn to make soft cloth shoes, sculted shoes, removable boots with leather soles and laces, and a myriad of others.
The book proclaims that you'd need to make hundreds of shoes to try out every idea in here, and that's just for the first half of the book! This is highly recommended! Making dolls shoes was never so enjoyable, or easy!

I am surprised that this hilarious book of essays from Steve Martin remains out-of-print.

The hardcover was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in June 1979 and was at an incredible point in Martin's comedic career, which found him touring - and selling out - major arenas nationwide, along with having a pair of hot albums - Let's Get Small (1977), A Wild and Crazy Guy (1978) - and a hit single, King Tut (1978). The 43 stories include The Boring Leading the Bored, Things Not To Be, The Year Winter Lasted Nine Minutes and When Men Shop.

A handmade limited edition of 750 signed and numbered books was published in 1977 by Press of the Pegacycle Lady and contains 24 essays.

No excuses here....this is a funny book from a brilliant comic.

This book brings you back to the days when Steve Martin did wacky humor that only he could do.

What a delightful story! It made me feel like a kid again when Ryan's wishes came true. We all need some fantasy in our lives, only sometimes we're not sure if what we wish for we really want.

What a delightful story!! We've all had experiences where "be careful for what you wish for" have come true, and it's interesting to see how Ryan O'Connor works his way through this ordeal. MacMillan draws you into the story so that you can actually feel what Ryan is feeling. Rafferty McGill is believable and out spoken. Makes one want to laugh out loud, but finish the book quickly so that you can see how it turns out. I, for one, will be looking for a leprechaun...

Fred Holbrook's life-story makes not just for a gripping and fascinating reading experience, but is salted with bits of valuable wisdom and poignant observations throughout. Fred is a true renaissance man: Hard hitting, elk-packing, man's man on the outside... and a poet on the inside. My only regret is that there isn't a string of Fred Holbrook books on the shelf.

This book was written by a dear friend of mine. It is about his life and how he triumphed from adveritey to success. Which goes to show, you can't keep a good man down. All you need is a oppertunity.

For centuries in China women tottered wearing tiny silk shoes. In "Every Step a Lotus," Dorothy Ko describes the obscure Chinese custom of footbinding. Every culture has different forms of unusual, sometimes unpleasant, rituals. In pre-1949 China petite feet symbolized beauty, status and honor. A woman's face and personality became secondary to tiny feet adorned with exquisite shoes.

Chinese women were revered for their textile artistry and took enormous pride in creating their own shoes, sitting together for days chatting and sewing decorative embroidery on ravishing silk. Lotus shoes told stories with intricate needlework reflecting hopes and dreams of a better life.

Ko's well-researched exposé and graceful prose details a custom that was the outcome of living in a male dominated Confucian culture. Ko includes over one hundred illustrations of exquisite antique lotus shoes from different regions during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Most of the spectacular shoes, from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, have never been exhibited before. Readers also get to see rare black and white photographs of women with bound feet.

Ko writes "As a historian who has studied footbinding and women's cultures for years, I do not claim to be neutral. I feel strongly that we should understand footbinding not as a senseless act of destruction but as a meaningful practice in the eyes of the women themselves." The author is a professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Ko's mission is refreshing and admirable. Passing judgment is hypocritical as every culture has idiosyncrasies. Footbinding is no different than plastic surgery, facelifts and silicon breast implants--modern examples of what people will endure for beauty and status. Let's not overlook Victorian era corsets that were dangerously tight, which reduced breathing capacity and jammed internal organs into hazardous positions.

Readers of "Every Step A Lotus" will gain appreciation for this unusual bygone Chinese custom. Why does footbinding continue to intrigue history enthusiasts and many others? Perhaps the answer lies in the author's words "Most of the bodies are gone; only the shoes remain."

By looking at these little silk treasures a world vastly different from ours is unveiled...we are given a glance of old China from 5,000 miles away.

Thank you Dorothy Ko for your expertise and writing this outstanding book. --M. Morrison, ...

This is another visually lovely book. I really enjoyed the breakdown and historical information presented. Very good resource for pics and data.

If you take the book to a print/copy place they can cut the spine and bind it for you, usually for about 3 bucks. Makes Dover scores easier to view as well.

Excellent book. Two questions though, why don't you offer this song book in a spiral bound? Have you ever read and tried to play music out of a paperback! Duh, most instruments take two hands to play with, plus a hankerchief. How am I suppose to hold the book open?

Thanks for listening,

Dr. Jazzbo ("Sneezey") Bumfletcher, a., CH;U., Esq..

Refreshing new idea with cute basic plot. Two year old daughter w/shoe obsession giggles over the forgotten shoes and four year old son enjoys it too. Don't forget to add this one to your shopping cart :)

We got this book from the library, and now here I am buying it, because we've renewed it so many times they won't let us renew again and my 3-year old son can't get enough of it. My 4-year old loves it, too, and the too of them laugh out loud each time we read it. We are a family of readers, and our house is filled with children's books, but it has been a long, long time since any book struck such a cord with any of our kids.

I was most fascinated by the book about children and their shoes. We all know children have a special bond
with their different shoes. The author brings to light an amusing and interesting view, on the side of the
shoes. I have bought five copies for Christmas presents. Looking forward to the rest of the series and the
tales of the children's shoes.



Rita Gallagher , Fountain Hills Arizona

Very touching story line. Love the shoes! Kids enjoyed identifying shoes they have. For instance, "Oh, I have crocs, too!" And, "my tennis shoes are a different color." Illustrations are bright and cheerful. The book allowed me lots of interaction with the kids-- about the ocean, conservation, sea animals, values.

What makes Montemarano's dark world so alchemical is the way in which he creates a mythology out of the broken morality, vicious hate, unrealized dreams, and the many other bleak threads from which our society is woven.

There is a quiet strength that runs through these stories. It is the strength of real self-taught morality. It is the strength of a person who is not afraid to examine the world around him. It is the strength of honesty. There is risk everwhere, and major accomplishment.

This is exceptionally good work. If you are interested in contemporary literature, you should read Montemarano.

Having read both "A Fine Place" and this latest collection, "If the Sky Falls," I'm convinced that Montemarano is the most important new writer to watch. In the tradition of Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tim O'Brien, and Don DeLillo, these stories hit a nerve and don't let up. He does what the supposed whiz kids of the moment seem to be afraid of doing, writing what risks most without promising redemption, using measured doses of experimentation that, like O'Brien and Phillips, not only serve the story but are necessary to the story, and writing with heartbreaking honesty, an overused term, but one that is more than applicable here. Nicholas Montemarano is not only the best writer to come on the scene in over a decade, he competes with the greatest of novelists and short story writers. This book more than deserves all the buzz surrounding it.

In His Shoes: A Short Journey through Autism
By Joanna L. Keating-Velasco
Autism Asperger's Publishing Company

Entering junior high school can be stressful and daunting for any kid, but for Nick Hansen, who is non-verbal because of his autism, it would be doubly hard. Joanna Keating-Velasco, author of In His Shoes, takes us through that year of transition with Nick, sharing his experiences, feelings, and reactions to a variety of scenarios encountered by the typical seventh grader, including Nick's first dance, track practice, and changing for gym in the locker room with the other boys in his gym class.

Throughout the story, written as a resource for middle school students, Joanna Keating-Velasco provides strategies that help students with autism cope, as well as ways their peers and others who work with them can help. Even as a teacher who worked with students with autism and a grandmother of a boy with autism, I learned several new strategies, such as the use of sun glasses to help with light sensitivity and visual over-stimulation.

Teachers and others working with junior high or middle school students will find In His Shoes a great resource for the classroom, not only for the story, but also for the thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

Joanne Keating-Velasco has provided a wonderful service in writing Nick's story. It can't help but promote better understanding of autism and empathy for those who live with it every day.

Judith Mammay is a retired exceptional education teacher, a grandparent of a child with autism, and the author of Knowing Joseph, a good companion book to IN HIS SHOES.

As the mother of my own Nicholas, who is high functioning Autism, I found this book to not only to be educational, but to also be very interesting. I could picture my son in similar situations, and trying to overcome his difficulties. I love how Joanna put the words behind his confusion explaining why things don't make sense when we talk using IDIOMS, instead of just saying what we mean. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an Autistic child in their lives.
Thank you Joanna for giving our kids a voice others may understand!