Wonderful Shoes on Play School Story Time!

Emma and I are overjoyed to have Wonderful Shoes join the stable of gorgeous picture books on Play School Story Time!

Read by the divine Fifi Box and her daughter Trixie, the book is retrieved (along with an adorable pair of shoes) from the Magic Story Drawer, then read with plenty of stamp-stomping and click-clacking and tip-tapping, of course! 

We even get to see Trixie's favourite shoe - the cutest pink heart boots. And her favourite shoe from Wonderful Shoes? The boots that go click-clack (a girl after my own pink heart).

This Story Time will appear on ABC Kids (free-to-air) on 19 October at 7.20am, or you can see it now on iView.

Huge thanks to Play School and the ABC, and to Windy Hollow Books. What a joy it is to have Wonderful Shoes shared with children all over Australia. 

See more about Wonderful Shoes right here, and download the book's colouring pages here.

Wonderful Shoes activity sheets

If you're after some wonderful activity ideas (teachers!) and colouring sheets for little ones during the school term or for the winter holidays, Emma and I have created some for Wonderful Shoes. Just click the poster, above, to download.

WONDERFUL SHOES book trailer

 

 

A timeless tale of tip-tapping click-clacking delight. 

 

Wonderful Shoes is a joyful celebration of everyday play, through the eyes of our tiniest humans, who know exactly where to find the best toys in the world!

 

Delightful verse and vibrant illustrations shine a light on the timeless tip-tapping click-clacking fun to be had, when little feet find big shoes.

 

For ages 3 - 6. Available instore and online.

 

Windy Hollow Books, Australia, May 2021

 

Trailer created by the fab Romi at Books on Tour PR & Marketing

 

Wonderful Shoes is nearly here!

Just two weeks till Wonderful Shoes takes its
big bold step into the world! 

See more here.

 

 

 

cover reveal - Wonderful Shoes!

Early bird gets the worm... this divine little book isn't out till April 2021 but we can wait not a single moment longer. Delighted to reveal the cover for Wonderful Shoes, written by fellow fashionista Emma Bowd, and publishing with Windy Hollow.

A timeless tale of tip-tapping click-clacking delight.  Wonderful Shoes is a joyful celebration of what  happens when little feet find big shoes!
What a joy it was to illustrate the little poppets in this book who STOMP and STAMP and FLIP and FLOP and TIP and TAP their way through a fine collection of footwear, as little ones are wont to do.

As the year melts away (thank goodness), Emma and I so look forward to sharing more about this lovely book - including internal peeks.

Shoes. Babies. Toddlers. It's bliss in a book.

a wee wintry update

Hello, peeps, how are you travelling? Are you keeping snug in our southern states?

If you are in Melbourne, I'm sending love. What a completely crappy time. I'm a Melbourne girl and have a half-tonne of friends and colleagues and family there - it's all so heartbreaking. How I wish I could sweep you all up and deposit you in the Maldives till Christmas.

It's raining here in Canberra, and this is when I'm most happy. It ever confounds me when people say they don't like it.

For me, as a child in perennially inclement Hobart, rain was comfort. It meant mud and earthworms, pink and wriggling on the surface before the inevitable deep dive. It meant a thriving veggie patch and an Irish-green lawn. It meant a bounty of peaches and plums and apricots on our trees.

Inside the house, it was foggy windows to paint on, warm spirals of baking from the kitchen, the cottony scent of mum's iron, thick socks and flannelette PJs - and any excuse to draw, craft, read, play with lego or dolls. Any excuse to snuggle.

Such deep comfort.