Bradley Kind

At age 5, Bradley Kind lost an orange shoe. He is still looking for it. Although he has never found that shoe, he is having a lot of fun searching. The Lost Orange Shoe, was selected EDITOR’S PICK by BookLife.

“Problem-solving and tongue-twisting rhymes power this delightful debut.”

—BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly

Before writing for children, Bradley was an inventor, program manager, and software engineer at several Silicon Valley companies, including Amazon, and Intel.

He hopes you always have fun, even when you are late for a party and can’t find your favorite shoe.

Bradley Kind, a children's author from Sunnyvale, California, enjoys prose and poetry. The Lost Orange Shoe is a rhyming picture book about Sue the Blue Kangaroo who has just moved to a new zoo and loses a shoe in her move. Sue ends up helping many baby animals and makes a few new friends. After all the help and searching, Sue solves a puzzle that may help her find her shoe.

Children who have a hard time learning all the different ways the oo sound can be spelled, will enjoy this book and become expert spellers, spelling oo with oo, oe, ough, ue, ou, wo, ut, u, ew, or just o.

Blue Sue Books is a publishing house based in San Francisco and Toronto.