Ruby Red Shoes: A Very Aware Hare

A charming, heartwarming tale, Ruby Red Shoes: A Very Aware Hare is about a hare who treats everyone's feelings with great care.Ruby Red Shoes is a white hare who lives in a prettily painted caravan with her grandmother. Ruby is gentle, cheerful and enchanting. She is a very aware hare and loves animals and people, trees and nature, flowers and sunshine – not forgetting red shoes . . . She also loves to travel! But home is where her heart lies and she loves nothing better than tending to her chickens, drinking peppermint tea and eating strawberry jam.Featuring gorgeous full-colour illustrations. This is the first installment in Kate Knapp's Ruby Red Shoes series – follow Ruby on her next adventure in Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris.

This is a truly beautiful book that we have completely fallen in love with. The illustrations are as adorable as the story., Ruby herself is a delightful protagonist. 'An aware hare' who lives consciously from day to day, enjoying everything about her simple routine, from the veg patch to her dumpling of a cuddly grandmother. This book is so beautifully observed and elegantly written; poetic and wise.

Illustrator and artist Kate Knapp is a graduate of Queensland College of Art. Her Ruby books are inspired by her family in England, and memories of reading The Magic Faraway Tree, Paddington Bear and Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas. Babushka Galushka is based on her English grandmother. Kate lived in London for three years in her twenties, but now lives in Brisbane, Australia with her long term partner, where she runs a design studio, Twigseeds, which produces greetings cards, stationery, books and homeware. Ruby Red Shoes: A Very Aware Hare is the first book in her Ruby Red Shoes series and has been shortlisted for several Australian children's book illustration awards.

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