Mrs. Toggle's Beautiful Blue Shoe [Hardcover]

Robin Pulver (Author), R.W. Alley (Illustrator)

Book Description

During recess, teacher Mrs. Toggle decides to join her students for an energetic game of kickball, but when she accidentally loses her shoe, it is up to the entire class to rescue it from its perch high up in a tree.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-4-Spring weather puts a kick in Mrs. Toggle's class and in her foot. Feeling like a kid again, she joins the children's kickball game, loses a shoe up a tree, and calls upon her students to help her get it down. As in Mrs. Toggle's Zipper (1990) and Mrs. Toggle and the Dinosaur (1991, both Four Winds), Principal Stickler thinks following the rules will solve the problem. Some of the tongue-in-cheek sound bites will go right over the heads of younger children, but older ones will enjoy the problem-solving aspect of this story as well as the subtle humor. Alley's chunky, multicultural characters are reminiscent of Marshall and Allard's work with their black-line, watercolor figures. However, the frumpy Mrs. Toggle makes for a more believable, lovable character than Miss Viola Swamp. Another winner in Pulver's vignettes of classroom situations.
Joyce Richards, Prairie Grove Elementary School, AR
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Ages 4-7. Kids who long to feel superior to adults will delight in this cheery tale that has its tongue firmly in cheek. Overcome by spring, buoyant Mrs. Toggle races off to the playground, where she accidentally sends her new blue shoe flying into a tree. After the ever-helpful kids in Mrs. Toggle's multicultural class fail to retrieve the shoe, they ask the principal for his sage advice. What they get, instead, are the rules Mr. Stickler always follows to get his cat down when she's stuck in a tree ("The next thing I try is foodÿ20.ÿ20.ÿ20.ÿ20Fluffy usually comes down for sardines in olive oil"). The simple text has appealing repetition; the watercolors are bright and breezy, and the silly twist at the end serves up the right dose of schoolyard justice. Julie Corsaro

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (March 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0027754561
• ISBN-13: 978-0027754568
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,953,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What an adorable book!!, August 1, 2007

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Mom2mari "Dionna" (Columbus, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mrs. Toggle's Beautiful Blue Shoe (Hardcover)

My 4 1/2 year old loves this book! She wants to read it every night. Her favorite part is when the principal jumps in to help. I have to read those pages over and over again. You'll be amazed at how your child wants to help Mrs Toggle as well.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun to read!!!, May 31, 2007

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DD67 "babyonahill" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mrs. Toggle's Beautiful Blue Shoe (Paperback)

Mrs. Toggle needs help from the children in her class to get back her lost shoe. What will she do? Mrs. Toggle stories are really fun to read. Great to read to a class and would make a really nice gift for a teacher. "Mrs. Toggle's zipper" is also a nice book and really cute story. There are a couple of sentences per page. Very nice illustrations.