The Girl In The Red Boots

Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel psychologist Dr. Judy Rabinor’s quest to understand her ambivalence toward her mother. While leading a seminar exploring the importance of the mother-daughter relationship, Dr. Judy Rabinor, an eating disorder expert, is blindsided by a memory of a childhood trauma. Realizing how this buried trauma has resonated through her life, she sets off to heal herself. The Girl in the Red Boots weaves together tales from Rabinor’s psychotherapy practice and her life, helping readers understand how painful childhood experiences can linger and leave emotional scars. In the process, Rabinor traces her own journey becoming a wounded healer and ultimately making peace with her mother, and herself. Not a traditional self-help book outlining “steps” to reconcile or forgive one’s mother, The Girl in the Red Boots is a poignant memoir filled with hard-won life lessons, including the fact that it’s never too late to let go of hurts and disappointments and develop compassion for yourself—and even for your mother.

There was once a poor little girl called Karen. In summer, she walked barefoot and in winter, she wore clogs that hurt her feet. She had no choice, it was all she had. Dame Shoemaker wanted to help her and sewed, as best she could, a pair of red shoes. When she wore them for the first time, Karen’s life took an unexpected turn. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

Meet "stubborn as a mule" Skye: a precocious, hilarious, delightful yet exasperating four-year-old drama queen who lives in south Louisiana. When Skye was given a shiny new pair of red rubber boots, she fell in love with them. Skye insisted on wearing the boots day and night, for practically a whole year. Although Skye's mother wearily attempted to persuade her to wear shoes other than the boots, Skye absolutely refused. Skye knew she was driving her sweet mother to her wits' end, yet her boots made her feel so securely grounded that she stubbornly continued to wear them. Then one day something really scary happens, and everything changes in an instant!

Holly is longing to go and play in the snow - but first she must find her special red boots. Where on earth could they be? Jasper the cat tries to help her look, but things just seem to get more and more confusing!

Before Max and Ruby were preschoolers, they were Baby Max and Ruby. The popular bunny siblings are back in another board books as their baby selves. In Red Boots, Baby Max can dress himself . . . with mittens on his ears and a hat on his foot. Silly Max! With eye-catching novelty elements, these irresistible board books will introduce the very youngest readers to the beloved bunny pair, who star in their own show on Nick Jr. and Noggin.

Sarah loves her shiny yellow boots, until the day she finds she has grown and cannot fit into them any more.

When Landis chooses shiny, red rainboots for his birthday present, instead of a toy; he had no idea what would happen next. Landis had always wondered what it would be like to talk to animals, and on his birthday he gets more than he ever imagined. Join Landis on an adventure of learning. As the animals share the gifts of wisdom, respect, and the laws of attraction; Landis discovers how love and visualization are the most powerful tools in the universe.

A little girl is enthralled by her new red boots which go everywhere she goes.

One bright autumn morning, Rose and her cheeky companion, Banjo, head off to fly their kite. The little red boots went marching, marching, marching. The little red boots went marching Merrily on their way...

Little girls can get very attached to their clothing and accessories. They want to be the princess. The princess in this story happens to wear boots...red boots. And to this little girl, her red boots are precious. She wears them all the time...with anything and anywhere. So what happens when they don't fit anymore? She discovers with the help of her mom, that she will be ok...better than okay actually, because she has the love of the Lord. This is something powerful and special, and something that she will never outgrow.