The Shoelace Robin
By: by William Hall, with drawings by Robert Lawson.
Contributors: Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: T. Y. Crowell
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 24
Copyright date: 1945
Subjects: Learning to lace shoes
Genres: Children's
First sentence: MICHAEL O'MALLEY was a little by who hopped out of bed every morning feeling very happy indeed.
Description: This is the story of a small boy who does not know how to lace his shoes. He trips over the laces coming down the stairs, and is sent outside by his mother to lace his shoes as she has previously taught him. He is sitting in the yard trying to remember how to lace his shoes when he spots his cat getting ready to pounce on a baby robin. He saves the robin, and in return the robins mother teaches him how to lace his shoes.
Notes: This Lawson illustrated book is in a format that resembles the Little Golden books except it is perhaps a bit taller and has an illustrated cover design that wraps around the spine. It is bound in thin glossy pictorial boards. The inside of the rear cover has a shoe with lace holes that can have a shoestring threaded through to practice lacing a shoe. The book originally came with a shoelace in the lace holes, although most copies found are missing the lace. It also was issued in a dust jacket.