A young bear needs help with an untied shoe.

A survey of the many kinds of shoes in the world concludes that the best of all are the perfect natural shoes that are your feet.

Adoring her comfortable, broken-in sneakers but acknowledging that her mother and she really need new shoes, young Amelia Bedelia spots a friend's beautiful footwear before tackling the challenge of going shoe-shopping on a shoestring budget.

I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all.

It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission.

There wasn't a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened to me is

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When Katie outgrows her shoes, she and her friends JoJo and Pedro go to the shoe store with their mothers.

"Roscoe Riley doesn't mean to break the rules. He's just trying to help... but it's a step in the wrong direction. Roscoe's friend Gus wants a pair of cool new shoes. But Gus's parents won't buy them until his old, boring ones are worn out-- and that could take forever. Luckily, if there's one thing Roscoe is good at, it's destroying things..."--p. [4] of cover.

Darling and her friends locate Queen Candace's wedding slippers, which Princess Mariposa wants to wear on her own wedding day, unaware that they are laced with magic.

Sofia has brand new white shoes for family friend Liliana's quincea�nera, but when she gets grape juice on them her mother makes her wear them anyway, even though they no longer match her white dress.

"This shoe lover's paradise reveals that a city's feet are as varied as the people and animals who live there." -- Publisher marketing.

"With three older brothers to pass along hand-me-downs, Sadie doesn't have much say in choosing her clothes. Her outfits always look interesting, though (even if some kids at school might not think so). But Sadie is allowed to pick her shoes, so one day she buys the most beautiful shoes ever -- shoes that sparkle in the sun, shoes she wears everywhere. That is, until Sadie and her brothers hop down a creek on an adventure, and one shoe falls off and...