Indian Shoes

Name: Indian Shoes
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN: 9780063279490

Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Heartdrum

Published: 10/11/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Beginner Readers

Synopsis

The beloved chapter book by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith about the love and adventures shared by a Cherokee-Seminole boy and his Grampa! A perfect pick for new readers.What do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or hightops with bright orange shoelaces?Ray Halfmoon prefers hightops, but he gladly trades them for a nice pair of moccasins for his grampa. After all, it's Grampa Halfmoon who's always there to help Ray get in and out of scrapes—like the time they teamed up to pet sit for the whole block during a holiday blizzard!Award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith writes with wit and candor about a boy and his grandfather, sharing all their love, joy, and humor.In partnership with We Need Diverse Books

About Cynthia Leitich Smith

Cynthia Leitich Smith is the bestselling, acclaimed author of books for all ages, including Firefly Season, Jingle Dancer, Indian Shoes, On a Wing and a Tear, Sisters of the Neversea, the Blue Stars series, Rain Is Not My Indian Name, Harvest House, and Hearts Unbroken, which won the American Indian Youth Literature Award. Cynthia is also the anthologist of Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids. She has been honored with the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Lecture Award and has been named the NSK Neustadt Laureate. She is the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children's Books, and served as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cynthia is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and lives in Denton and Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debbie

Filled with terrific stories, this book informs readers that there are Native people living in Chicago. Chicago??? Yep. Not only are we not a vanished people who fell off the earth at that "end of the trail" (I hate that statue), we live in major urban areas. There's a lot of Native people in major......more

Goodreads review by Michelle

What a sweet chapter book about a boy and his grandfather. This gave me all of the warm fuzzy feelings, I didn't have a grandpa quite like this, but I had a grandma like this. I loved all of the little stories of companionship and love, and 4th grade Michelle would've SNATCHED this book up in a hear......more

Goodreads review by June

Have you ever read a story collection where you told yourself as you finished reading each story, 'That story was my favorite!', only to read the next story to find yourself saying, 'No, that one was definitely my favorite!'? This is exactly what happened to me when I read this delightful collection......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

66 pages that will warm the hearts of readers in grades 2-4. Ray Halfmoon lives with his Cherokee grandfather in Chicago but they regularly visit family members in the more rural Oklahoma. Each chapter is a standalone vignette out of their lives-stories of bad haircuts, special gifts, a Christmas th......more