Put Your Shoes on and Get Ready!
Put Your Shoes on and Get Ready!
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Annotation: From Georgia's first Black Senator Raphael Warnock comes an inspiring picture book about finding your dreams and making ... more
Genre: [Biographies]
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #352704
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 2023
Edition Date: 2023 Release Date: 01/10/23
Illustrator: Grooms, TeMika,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 0-593-52887-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-593-52887-7
Dewey: 921
LCCN: 2022951866
Dimensions: 29 cm
Language: English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews

Georgia's first Black senator urges readers to get up, get dressed, and find the right shoes for what they're going to do.Warnock offers a shoe-based view of his own experiences-donning boots each summer to help his dad haul old cars and church shoes on Sundays to hear him preach, high-tops to play basketball, and pastor and activist shoes as a grown-up. Though he became a pastor at the same Baptist church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, he notes with humility that he "never thought it was [his] job to walk in" those shoes but to find his own, and now, after his election, he wears lace-ups for his job of helping people. Fondly watching his own children clomping around in his shoes, he tells them what his father told him: "You have to put on shoes that fit your feet-shoes for the job you're meant to do." Often taking ground-level perspectives to focus attention on the footwear, Grooms depicts the author recognizably in uncrowded settings that usually include racially and ethnically diverse company. A final scene of the senator sitting with a group of diverse but not individualized children does skate close to blandness, but overall the art's clean hues and smiling faces create an atmosphere more buoyant than stale for the lightly delivered message. (This book was reviewed digitally.)Good-humored inspiration from heel to toe. (Picture-book autobiography. 6-8)

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

In this anecdotal picture book, Georgia’s first Black senator revisits his childhood, offering takeaways that young readers can step into. As a boy, Warnock sometimes resists his father’s daily call to “Get up! Get dressed! Put your shoes on and get ready!” Slipping on his dad’s boots instead of his own prompts this guidance: “You’ve got to put the right shoes on for the work you’re meant to do.” His dad models this, working on weekdays and preaching on weekends: “During the week, my father lifted broken cars, and on Sundays... he lifted people.” Inspired to become a preacher himself, Warnock realizes “I didn’t have the shoes for that job yet,” but grows into them through college and adulthood, becoming senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, once led by Martin Luther King Jr. Foregrounding portraiture and images of figures’ footwear, Grooms’s illustrations have the sweep of murals, portraying characters of varying abilities and skin tones, and communicating Warnock’s purpose-driven efforts. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)

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Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)
Reading Level: 1.0
Interest Level: K-3
Lexile: AD860L

From Georgia's first Black Senator Raphael Warnock comes an inspiring picture book about finding your dreams and making your mark in the world.

Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told him to get up, get dressed, put on his shoes, and get ready! So that’s what he did, along every step of his journey. From his work boots to his marching band shoes to his shiny lace-ups, Senator Reverend Warnock found the right shoes to fit his feet and to carry him toward his dreams.
 
This inspirational story, with bold, brilliant art by TeMika Grooms, follows Raphael Warnock’s journey from Savannah, Georgia, to the United States Senate and shows young readers that they, too, can find the power to be themselves and make a difference when they have the shoes that fit their feet.
 


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