George Putnam

Soles George Putnam

It is three o'clock in the morning when five pairs of abandoned shoes awaken inside Enzo's repair shop. Prima is an Italian-made pair of ice skates. Her pals are Di, distressed leather boots; Brody, high-top basketball sneakers; Dallas, a fifty-year-old pair of cowboy boots; and Looie, orange-suede walking shoes. Although all five pairs are different, they all have the same wish: to find their original owners. But in order to accomplish their mission, they need a miracle. While the determined group creates a song-and-dance routine they hope to perform on late-night television to attract the attention of their former owners, they have no idea that a seventy-year-old pair of shoes named Gum Shu is on a stakeout outside the shop. He is running down a rumor for his owner who wants to possess the talented shoes so he can become wealthy and famous. But when Prima decides it is her destiny to escape the shop, everything changes for the other pairs as well. In this entertaining tale, five pairs of shoes abandoned in a repair shop come up with a creative solution to their dilemma that leads them down an adventurous path to a new future.