Red Shoes

by Geraldine Kaye (Adapter), Hans Christian Andersen

These books, attractively illustrated throughout in four colors, provide lively and interesting reading for both classroom and individual use. Vocabulary and structures are graded, following the scheme developed by L. A. Hill, and the readers are grouped in four stages at the 500, 750, 1000, and 1500 headword levels. Each stage contains two levels of interest, Junior and Senior, to give a variety of content and to appeal to readers of different ages. A glossary and comprehension and vocabulary questions are at the back of each book.

32 pages, Paperback

Published December 12, 1983

About the author

Geraldine Kaye started writing at the age of nine and is the author of many books for children and teenagers. She has been published in thirteen languages and in 1984 won the Other Award for Comfort Herself. She was also a teacher of creative writing. Geraldine Kaye died in 2010.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

A vile and vain socialite is obsessed with Christian Louboutin heels, with their red soles. She spends hours uploading filtered pics to her instagram account. In the end she becomes addicted to buying shoes and enhancing her figure through surgical procedures, and has to become a stripper at a local gentleman's club to finance her habit, where she must dance and gyrate constantly to a backing of hideous yet slick 90's pop hits.

Due to increasing foot problems from wearing heels 24/7 her feet have to be amputated. Severed from her body, they spend all day strutting up and down Oxford Street. She ends up using crutches and a wheelchair and claiming benefits. She learns to be humble, and spends her time running bring and buy sales for the local church. She learns to crochet, and joins the Green Party where she is elected as a local councillor due to her fantastic policies concerning the environment. All her clothes are now purchased from Oxfam.

A moral tale.

[Tiny Mendoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow. Maybe the reason why the author wrote this was because it's purpose is to scare children? Lol. I liked it though! Be careful of what you wish for!