Your book titled, Those Shoes written by Maribeth Boelts, seems very close to home for myself. As a young child, I was that kid that had to use ripped or on some cases stained clothes. So, I think that I wish I could have had someone do a kind think like that for me. With I have always tried to relay the message that we should be thankful for what we have. This tales me back to a situation, where one of my students was very upset with his mother she wanted this very expensive toy. She told him they couldn’t afford it, he wanted it so bad for his birthday. So, on his birthday he came to school the teachers had purchased the toy he wanted, his mother was always there to help in classroom, whether it was for cleaning the year, cutting paper,
