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Picture Book · Ages 4–8 · June 17, 2025
Put Your Shoes On
By Polly Dunbar
A boy's imagination runs wild as his mom tries to get him ready for a party.
40 pages
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Children's book Author & Illustrator
Polly Dunbar
Biography
Polly Dunbar is the author-illustrator of numerous picture books, including Penguin, Arthur’s Dream Boat, Hello Tilly, Pretty Pru, and Good Night, Tiptoe. She is also the illustrator of Shoe Baby by Joyce Dunbar, Here’s a Little Poem by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, and My Dad’s a Birdman by David Almond. She lives in England.
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