
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. When Silvia receives a package containing new red new shoes from her Tia Rosita in San Diego, she cannot contain her excitement. Her mother, admiring the new shoes "the color of a rose," explains that they must be put away until Silvia grows into them. Silvia sleeps with her new shoes, makes doll beds out of them, and uses them as a train while she waits for many months until they fit her. Finally the shoes fit, and she wears them to town to mail a letter to her aunt.aunt.
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