Suitabook
Who Took My Shoe?
Elana Bregin
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Elana Bregin. Illustrator: Nicki Blackbeard. Designer: Kathryn Elliott. Editor: Mariam Mahomed.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: Who Took My Shoe? (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at the animal guesses and invite your child to notice what is real in the pictures and what the characters are imagining. At the ending, revisit earlier clues together.
- Themes
- Sibling teasing and help: Lungi jokes about the missing shoe and initially keeps what she knows to herself, then leads Jabulani to it. The story shows teasing alongside later help, but does not explain Lungi's motive.
- Finding an explanation: Jabulani and Lungi imagine animals taking the shoe; the ending offers a different explanation through a pictured reveal. The playful guesses invite readers to compare what characters imagine with what the pictures show.
- Worth knowing
- Jabulani looks cross and says somebody has taken his shoe; the family search does not find it before school. The predicament is resolved later, but the initial frustration is part of the story.