Four Feet, Two Sandals

I challenge you to read this story to your kids without pausing to cry your eyes out. What a great story and the best way to teach them empathy. Was perfect for the classroom to wrap up Thanksgiving week- all the children were left speechless and thoughtful. What a different perspective for them to think about! It would make a great Christmas gift also.

Great way to teach kids empathy, sharing, and the challenges of war refugees. The more we create desperate nomads by continuing wars, the more our children need to know how fortunate they are to have a home and how destructive hatreds and prejudices can be to people just like themselves.

How many refugee children in the world today are without access to education in temporary camps or shelters? More than I could imagine most likely. The author presents a desperate situation with kind and loving attention and details. We gave this as a gift to my daughter's Girl Scout troop to recognize World Thinking Day. Raises important subjects for upper elementary students such as casualties of war, equal access to education, fairness, sharing, loss of one's home, and many others.

Nice illustration.This is a very simple and easy to read children's book that tells the moving story of two young girls living in the same refugee camp but forced to come to terms with a different fate. It is deeply touching.I find that there are many lessons that can be drawn from this story that can encourage young children to understand values that are hard to teach in this current landscape of technology and abundance.

This is an incredible book to introduce children in an age appropriate way to the realities that families all across the world are facing. The story is both heartbreaking and hopeful.

Beautifully illustrated, crisply-written.A must-have for any school library.One thing that could have been easily left out - the name of the country the refugees get relocated to. A little bit of mystery is not such a bad thing.Plus, we Americans like America's greener pasturers to be left to our own lot sometimes. That bit at the end could put some readers out and destroy the purpose of the book - which is to show the girl's delicate friendship and how they manage, even in hard times, to simply survive.All in all, a classic.

I bought this book for recently arrived refugee girls who understand some English. I read it immediately and had tears in my eyes by the end. The story of the brief encounter of two Afghan girls would become a lasting bond because of a pair of shoes. I expect to sit with my little friends and read it with them.

I found this book on the 'I am your neighbor' book list. It is a simple story about 2 girls in a refugee camp waiting for resettlement. The book has beautiful illustrations in warm colors. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to help their kids / students to learn more about refugees and their difficult journey to safety.