What Can You Do With A Shoe?

Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead! What can you do with a hat? You can fill it up with pickles or with popcorn or with glue. An octopus could rest in it, a bird could build a nest in it, a turtle be a guest in it. Or would a horse look best in it?

These are samples of the questions and wonderfully silly, laugh-provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy dressed up in their parents' clothes. On every page of this whimsically playful book, there are many enchanting paintings by Maurice Sendak. Richly imagined and wholly in tune with children's high spirits and sense of play, What Can You Do With a Shoe?, first published in 1952 and now reissued in a brand-new edition, will be welcomed by young and old. It is a treasure!