The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes, retold by Gloria Fowler, illustrated by Sun Young Yoo. Hans Christian Andersen's horrifying fairy-tale, The Red Shoes, in which a young girl must pay a terrible price for her "vanity," is given a distinctly modern twist in Gloria Fowler's reinterpretation. No longer an ungrateful o......more

Retelling dari The Red Shoes oleh HC Andersen. Ceritanya lebih simpel, nggak terlalu gelap, dan menonjolkan pesan kreativitas dari sosok tokoh utama, Karen. Meskipun memang agak jauh berbeda dari kisah aslinya. Ilustrasinya yang keren banget. Hitam putih dengan teknik goresan pensil (saya nggak begi......more

Karen, the daughter of poor shoemaker dreamt about growing-up and making beautiful dancing shoes and clothes to go with them. Because her mother was too poor to buy shoes for her birthday, she had been secretly making a pair of red shoes for Karen out of some leftover scraps. Unfortunately she fell......more

My five-year-old son picked this book out from the library this week. I might have helped him -- my first name is Karen, and I was so enthralled with and terrified of Andersen's version as a child that I was twenty before I owned a pair of red shoes. The pen and ink illustrations are delightful, but......more

i agree with this review that stated "The illustrations were beautiful, but the story read like a parable for indie designers." As an indie designer, I didn't see that as a drawback — I liked how the newly interpreted text taught the lesson that cleverness and honing of your (potentially inherited)......more