Four Feet, Two Sandals

This is an incredible book to introduce children in an age appropriate way to the realities that families all across the world are facing. The story is both heartbreaking and hopeful.

I challenge you to read this story to your kids without pausing to cry your eyes out. What a great story and the best way to teach them empathy. Was perfect for the classroom to wrap up Thanksgiving week- all the children were left speechless and thoughtful. What a different perspective for them to think about! It would make a great Christmas gift also.

Great way to teach kids empathy, sharing, and the challenges of war refugees. The more we create desperate nomads by continuing wars, the more our children need to know how fortunate they are to have a home and how destructive hatreds and prejudices can be to people just like themselves.

How many refugee children in the world today are without access to education in temporary camps or shelters? More than I could imagine most likely. The author presents a desperate situation with kind and loving attention and details. We gave this as a gift to my daughter's Girl Scout troop to recognize World Thinking Day. Raises important subjects for upper elementary students such as casualties of war, equal access to education, fairness, sharing, loss of one's home, and many others.

Beautifully illustrated, crisply-written. A must-have for any school library. One thing that could have been easily left out - the name of the country the refugees get relocated to. A little bit of mystery is not such a bad thing. Plus, we Americans like America's greener pasturers to be left to our own lot sometimes. That bit at the end could put some readers out and destroy the purpose of the book - which is to show the girl's delicate friendship and how they manage, even in hard times, to simply survive. All in all, a classic.

I bought this book for recently arrived refugee girls who understand some English. I read it immediately and had tears in my eyes by the end. The story of the brief encounter of two Afghan girls would become a lasting bond because of a pair of shoes. I expect to sit with my little friends and read it with them.

I found this book on the 'I am your neighbor' book list. It is a simple story about 2 girls in a refugee camp waiting for resettlement. The book has beautiful illustrations in warm colors. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to help their kids / students to learn more about refugees and their difficult journey to safety.

Four Feet, Two Sandals is a wonderful learning tool. I think that our kids (and in this case grandkids) really have no idea how very very blessed we are in this country. I believe it is important for them to understand, as far as possible, that there are kids in the world just like them who lead very different lives. Not only do they not have their own I-Pod and DS, they do not even have their own pair of shoes! Stories such as Four Feet, Two Sandals make them more aware of the big world they live in.

Great story. Really hits home how much well off we truly are. Useful to introduce to younger children who never has to live in any hardships.

This book was very helpful in building understanding of the effects of war. I used it as an introduction to the study of The Breadwinner, by Debra Ellis.

2010年 小学校3、4年向けの推薦図書。邦題は「友達のしるしだよ」 戦争の犠牲者はいつも子供なのです。二人の友情に涙がこみ上げます。 英語のレベルは高１程度。英語で読むと、文化的な違いをより濃く感じられますよ。 ラマダンのことなど、訳本にない内容も楽しめます。

A very heart warming story on friendship

This is a beautiful and important story that my 6-year old girls quickly grew fond of. It very simply and clearly portrays a starkly different part of our world, where others' lives are very different to our own. Unfortunately in our particular household, the issue of "1 [particular] pair of shoes, and four feet" has been an occasionally recurring issue though for very opposite and humdrum reasons, so the story was particularly accessible and articulate for them.