This is a picture book about the 60’s scoop. During the 60’s scoop Native American children were scooped into residential schools. Not all kids who went into a residential schools came home.  Some were given to new families, and many died. The story starts out with night skies and constellations and a little boy who can’t sleep. The little shoe aspect seems to come from nowhere and fade into nowhere again after it’s mentioned. I love the illustrations they are beautiful, but I wish this focused more on the stories of the little shoes then focusing on the boy wondering learning about them. This book seems to want to be two different stories wrapped up in one pretty box. However, all it is, is a pretty box. It’s convoluted and it’s hard to get the point of the story because there are too many ideas floating at once.