The Crazy Shoe Shuffle
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The Crazy Shoe Shuffle
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
(Mammoth)
978-0749722005, RRP £4.50, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
Wouldn't it be wonderful if sarcastic, bullying and manipulative teachers had to spend a couple of days in the shoes of the children who have to put up with them? Maybe not. When Lee, a hard done by child at a very realistically depicted primary school, tries to sort out a stack of sabotaged shoe bags, that is exactly what happens. The transformation of three teachers into eleven-year-olds, highly vulnerable to the savagery of their peers, is described in cruel and humorous detail, but with a wonderfully humane eye for the saving graces that dwell deep beneath case hardened adult exteriors.


