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Shoe Wars

Liz Pichon

4.39 · Rating details · 44 ratings · 9 reviews

Readers who have devoured Captain Underpants, Wimpy Kid, and the works of Raina Telgemeier will love the high-energy, hilarious antics of the Foot family from one of the largest names in the UK.
Step up to the challenge . . . win or shoes!

Meet Ruby and Bear. Their dad has just invented the most amazing thing ever -- flying shoes! But his horrible boss Wendy Wedge knows tha ...more

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Hardcover, 448 pages

Expected publication: March 2nd 2021 by Scholastic Press

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Jan 04, 2021 Stefan Garland rated it it was amazing

Iako je ova cipelastična priča namenjena nekim ljudima malo nižim od mene, koji nose manji broj cipela (43, ako vas baš zanima), i imaju malo manje godina (da kažemo 20ak), i ja sam u njoj podjednako uživao kao i oni! Ovo je skroz jedna od onih od 9 do 99 godina priča!

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Nov 22, 2020 Mehsi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-twinkling-stars, away-laughing-on-a-fast-camel, children-s-books, warning-english-books, the-butler-did-it

Shoes, villains, dogs, and tons and tons of fun in this delightful book by Liz Pichon.

I have read most of the Tom Gates books and while I enjoy them, because of the fun art and Liz Pichon’s fun writing style, I was a bit bored of the series. So imagine my delight when I saw she wrote something TOTALLY different. This time about shoes, and a mean shoe villain, and family. I just had to try it out, and I can tell you that this was just the best and the most fun!

Meet Ruby and Bear and Ivor, the fir Shoes, villains, dogs, and tons and tons of fun in this delightful book by Liz Pichon.

I have read most of the Tom Gates books and while I enjoy them, because of the fun art and Liz Pichon’s fun writing style, I was a bit bored of the series. So imagine my delight when I saw she wrote something TOTALLY different. This time about shoes, and a mean shoe villain, and family. I just had to try it out, and I can tell you that this was just the best and the most fun!

Meet Ruby and Bear and Ivor, the first two are kids and brother/sister and the last one is their dad who is an amazing inventor and shoemaker. Really, this guy can make anything! But he is under contract with one of the worst people in the world and the one who controls the town, Wendy Wedge. There is a big competition coming and things are getting quite hairy with each day. And more fun and more exciting and more wow.

I loved seeing the kids try to help out their dad, try to make sure he is safe, later on there is even a big rescue in which the kids try to find there dad, but in the meantime find something that may be the rescue of everyone in this little town (which is, as expected from the big villain Wendy, even named after her).

The kids are awesome (not just for the above mentioned part, but also with other things, though I was shaking my head at what they did earlier in the book that caused a lot of bad things to happen and didn’t make me happy), but other characters that we see in this book are also well written. Like Bert, the only guy not under contract of Wendy and the only one who still has his own shoe store. Or Betty, who works with Ivor but is definitely not amused with her employer. Or Chelsea, Betty’s daughter.

The villain, Wendy Wedge, was well written. That is pretty rare. Sometimes I am just so frustrated with a villain I cannot read on. But with Wendy? I could. I was curious what her next elaborate plan would be and how many wedges did this girl have? We learn quite a bit about her, though there was one fact I saw coming for miles.

I loved reading about all the shoes, and the big show at the end was fantastic. Where do I sign up to get those shoes? Hello? Next to the fun show there was of course the big finale as Ivor, Bert, Betty, and the kids try to stop Wendy from doing any more. That part was also very exciting and I loved how it all came together.

I would love to see more of Sally’s (the mother) book and all the creations she made.

The book is also illustrated and I loved the illustrations. Oh, btw, was that Tom Gates near the end with the award show starting?

All in all, I could probably talk more about the amazing flying shoes, the annoying Walter, the epilogue which seems to promise more story, that people lived in actual shoeboxes (just a bigger more liveable size), someone who just seems neighbourly becomes epic, treat your minions with kindness or things will bite you in your butt, but let me just cut the review here and tell you all to read this fun, hilarious, shoe-tastic book.

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Jan 08, 2021 Ms. Yingling rated it liked it

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Ruby and Bear live with their father, Bert Brogue, in a tiny house near Wendy Wedge's shoe factory. He used to have his own shop and designed fabulous shoes, but after his wife Sally's death from snake bite, he became despondent and gave in to Wendy's demands. She is pure evil (think Cruella deVil, but with evil shoes), and so is her son Walter, who of course attends school with Ruby and Bear. When their father invents a flying shoe, the children hope he can win t ...more

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Nov 12, 2020 Andrew MacDonald rated it really liked it

Not Liz Pichons best work but defiantly a book worth reading. This book is full of shoetastic things like: flying shoes, evil villains and plots that will defiantly put a smile on your face. I would recommend this book for 7-11 year olds!

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Jan 12, 2021 Geni Kuckhahn rated it really liked it

There’s an old saying that goes something like this: You can tell a lot about a person from the shoes they’re wearing.

From the bestselling author of Tom Gates comes this brand new hilarious stand-alone novel.

We meet Ruby and Bear Foot. They are on a mission to save their inventor dad from his boss, the evil Wendy Wedge, who has been steadily taking over Shoe Town…I mean, Wedge Town. Wendy Wedge is so set on winning the prestigious Golden Shoe Award that she’ll do just about anything – and she wa There’s an old saying that goes something like this: You can tell a lot about a person from the shoes they’re wearing.

From the bestselling author of Tom Gates comes this brand new hilarious stand-alone novel.

We meet Ruby and Bear Foot. They are on a mission to save their inventor dad from his boss, the evil Wendy Wedge, who has been steadily taking over Shoe Town…I mean, Wedge Town. Wendy Wedge is so set on winning the prestigious Golden Shoe Award that she’ll do just about anything – and she wants Dad’s secret invention. In the adventure that follows, Ruby and Bear manage to not only save the day in the nick of time but set some endangered animals free and solve a mystery very close to their hearts, all with their animal sidekick Shoo in tow.

With her clever use of voice and varying typography, Pichon makes the whole book read like a child telling you a story, making Shoe Wars relatable to even the most reluctant reader. This book offers a light romp for kids to whiz through, and Pichon’s accompanying doodles make it all the more fun.

I was most impressed by the number of serious issues Pichon managed to introduce to her audience without ever flattening the momentum with didactics. She teaches her readers that keeping endangered animals in captivity is bad, that keeping small businesses afloat is better than seeing them taken over by large companies and she even touches lightly on tax evasion! All this and at no time does the story feel clunky or overfilled. It is fast-paced from tip to toe and hilarious every step of the way.

The one thing children may find confusing is Pichon’s switching between referring to Ruby and Bear’s father as ‘Dad’ and ‘Ivor’ in the same dialogue, giving the effect of two separate characters in a conversation. Pichon perhaps did this to remind her readers what ‘Dad’s’ name is for when she would have to refer to him by name, though this might have been otherwise achieved less confusingly.

Kids of ages 7 to 12 (and their parents!) will enjoy this book excessively. Another great publication by one of Briton’s most successful authors. ...more

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Dec 22, 2020 Nicola Lowson rated it really liked it

Shelves: liz-pichon-books, children

A cleverly written story about a family who fight the nasty Wendy Wedge to stop her from winning the 'Golden Shoe Award' which is rightfully theirs. Loved how all the characters had shoe names! Liz Pichon has an amazing imagination when it comes to shoe inventions - I imagine my class would love to come up with some more for the 'Foot' family to invent. ...more

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Nov 27, 2020 Rebecca Rouillard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A brand-new story from the creator of Tom Gates: Ruby and Bear Foot live in Shoe Town with their Dad. When his evil boss, Wendy Wedge, catches wind of his amazing flying shoes she is determined to steal the shoes and win the Golden Shoe Award. Can Bear and Ruby rescue their Dad and foil Wendy's plans? Shoe Wars is a madcap, page-turning, adventure filled with hilarious shoe puns. ...more

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Jan 05, 2021 adwait deshpande rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shoe-tastic

SHOE WARS is an amazing book ,at first I thought that Ruby and Bear would not be able to come to the contest but I was wrong they made it in the end. But there is one problem, a page din't load. Only one page though so it's OK (Plus my name is Rishi and I am 8 years old) ...more

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Aug 28, 2020 Chrys rated it really liked it

A funny, inventive comedy with great illustrations. This is going to be super popular with fans of Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates. The whole thing was fun but I particularly loved the foot notes.

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L. Pichon says that when she was little, she loved to draw, and her mom said she was very good at making a mess (this is still true today). She kept drawing, went to art school, became a designer and art director at Jive Records, and began to publish children’s books. After its publication in the U.K., The Brilliant World of Tom Gates won several prestigious awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny ...more