The Helpful Shoelace [With Shoe Lace for Practicing] (Who Cares About) [Board book]

Tina Freeman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996 | Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Who Cares About

Follow the shoelace as it helps Robin the weasel, Princess Eleanor and Fido the pet dragon solve their problems. Innovative activity storybook helps children learn to lace and tie their shoes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A wonderful activity book to help children learn how to tie l ces in all different ways, all integral to the story. -- Amy Betty Bookmark

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Board book: 14 pages
• Publisher: Child's Play International (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0859538745
• ISBN-13: 978-0859538749
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,977,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this book - It does not teach shoe tying, December 29, 2004

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R. Betz (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Helpful Shoelace [With Shoe Lace for Practicing] (Who Cares About) (Board book)

Despite the claim in the online description that this book "teaches the reader how to lace and tie a shoe" it does nothing of the sort. The book is nothing more than one of those lace books where you make patterns that form things like a broom and a bow and arrow by running a long cord through sets of holes. The last lace up picture is of a shoe, but there is no similarity between that picture and lacing an actual shoe.

My son waited over two weeks for this book (my fault for the delay, not Amazon's) and was completely frustrated looking for the part that taught him how to tie shoes. After looking it over, I realized that the book included absolutely no instructions on how to tie or lace a shoe. I opened to the last page, ran the included lace through two holes at random, and taught my son to tie his shoes with no help at all from the book. The only useful feature was that it came with an extra long and thicker than normal shoelace that was a good match for the size of my son's hands. However, the laces in my own sneakers are about the same size, so I didn't even need that.

In my opinion, this book is misrepresented and totally useless for teaching children to tie shoes. There are no shoe tying instructions at all, good or bad. I would recommend against buying this book unless you simply like lace up board books.