From Caldecott Honorwinning author-illustrator Jashar Awan comes a hilarious and confidence-boosting (Publishers Weekly, starred review) picture book about the perseverance and positive self-talk needed to learn to tie your shoelaces!

This big kid is wearing his first pair of big-kid shoes, the kind with laces! Even though theyre a little on the roomy sideshoes to grow into, of coursehe knows he can take care of them. Except they keep falling off!

Not to worry, hell just tie them up again, because he knows how to tie those loops! But wait a second, where did that darn shoe go?

Nothing is ever truly easy when youre just starting something new; but, just like with any stage in childhood, whether its making your first steps, or going down the really big slide, with persistence, doing anything scary or overwhelming quickly becomes a piece of cake! And before you know it, youre a BIG KID!