Book Review: What Can You Do With Only One Shoe?

Book: What Can You Do With Only One Shoe? Reuse, Recycle, Reinvent by Simon and Sheryle Shapiro with art by Francis Blake

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

"I recycled my bike and created a dog, from the chain and the pedals and saddle and cog."

In this inventive new collection of verse, Sheryl and Simon Shapiro introduce readers to 13 everyday objects that have been ingeniously reimagined into something else altogether.

Color photographs of recycled objects are accompanied by lighthearted, jaunty poems in a variety of lengths and rhyming patterns. Kids will love identifying each reinvented item, and will marvel at how a shoe makes a great bird's nest, how old tin cans make a guitar, or how a car can be transformed into a bed!

Complete with Francis Blake's lively color illustrations, "What Can You Do With Only One Shoe?" will delight young readers while introducing the idea of recycling and repurposing in a new and innovative way.


Rating: 3 1/2 stars

Review:

This was a fun way to introduce recycling to young readers through colorful illustrations, fun pictures and whimsical poetry.

Since, this isn't a how-to book, I think most of the ideas are more inspirational (because they might be a bit difficult for kids to do) but there are a quite a few that I think kids would love to attempt such as using random items for planters or coming up with different ways to use a shoe. There is also an idea to transform a pair of jeans into a purse.

There was one idea, I really thought was cool, turning an old grocery cart into a chair. I was able to find a picture online so you can see it.

(Photo credit: inhabitat.com)


I think this is a great way to show kids that there is value in things that's seen as junk.