I love Ruby Red Shoes. I discovered her last December when I was browsing the children's books at Bookface, looking for a book to give my daughter for a Christmas gift. I fell in love with the cover, and then when I opened the book, I was sold. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story is just so cute.
Ruby is a white hare who lives with her grandmother, Babushka Galina Galushka, in a painted caravan. Ruby has her own garden where she grows flowers and vegetables and she also keeps chickens, who are so clever that she is teaching them French.
There are two further books - Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris, and Ruby Red Shoes Goes to London, and they are just as special as the first.
If you have daughters or granddaughters, or nieces, or god-daughters or any young girl in your life, they will love these books - they are just so pretty! And if you don't, just go ahead and buy them for yourself!
Kate Knapp is the author and illustrator, and you can see more about these beautiful books here.
