About this item
One can, two can. Who can? You can!Using junk from the landfill site.Rusty cans and wood and wire,thrumming, strumming, day and night.In this inventive new collection of verse, Sheryl and Simon Shapiro introduce readers to 13 everyday objects that have been ingeniously reimagined into something else altogether.Color photographs of recycled objects are accompanied by lighthearted, jaunty poems in a variety of lengths and rhyming patterns. Kids will love identifying each reinvented item, and will marvel at how a shoe makes a great birds nest, how old tin cans make a guitar, or how a car can be transformed into a bed!Complete with Francis Blakes lively color illustrations, What Can You Do With Only One Shoe? will delight young readers while introducing the idea of recycling and repurposing in a new and innovative way.
About the Author
Simon Shapiro was born and grew up in South Africa where kids can play sports outdoors all year round. When Simon wasn't reading, he was playing sports. He loved lots of different sports, though he was never very good at any of them.
At school Simon also loved, and excelled at math, science and English. At university he majored in math and science and discovered an aptitude for computer programming. He started programming in South Africa on computers as big as a brontosaurus (but more primitive) . Early in his career he moved to Canada, where he's lived for the last forty years.
His latest book Faster, Higher, Smarter combines sport and science. It tells the stories of amazing people who totally transformed different sports through their bright ideas. And it explains the science that makes these ideas work.
Simon is married to Sheryl Shapiro, a graphic designer. They have teamed up to write five books of poems for kids, all published by Annick Press. Although those books are all for a younger audience than Faster, Higher, Smarter, several of them have an element of science or math. Better Together (2011) is about the concept of mixtures, and Ladybugs Have Lots of Spots and Zebra Stripes Go Head to Toe (Fall 2013) introduce young children to concepts of shapes.
Writing books for Annick Press is something of a family tradition. Simon and Sheryl have one son, Stephen, who has written five books, all on history, published by Annick Press. His first book Ultra Hush-Hush was published while Stephen was still a teenager.
Simon's hobbies include photography, folk-dancing and making ice-cream. He loves travelling, reading and theatre. He lives in Toronto.
