Shoes for the Shepherd
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About the Book
When a young boy comes to an old sandal maker and ask him to make a pair of adult-sized sandals for a baby, the man is confused and surprised by his request. After all, so many children of that time never made it to adulthood and so his request seemed foolish. The boy tells the old man that three great men came to see the baby and one of them looked into the manger and said Rab and the boy figured if the child was going to grow up to be a rabbi, he would need good footwear. The boy says his father has given him a lamb to start his own flock, but now, after seeing the baby, has given him permission to use the lamb for the leather. And there their journey begins.
About the Author
Dixielee Tripp is the owner of a bed and breakfast on the Idaho/Oregon border. She has been a college teacher of Speech and English and her one true love, phonics. She and her husband, Robert, have recently celebrated 50 years of marriage. She began writing in college as a non-traditional student over 30 years ago and has had published works in several anthologies as well as a winning submission to Writer's Digest. Much of her writing includes poetry and short stories about her hometown in Nebraska and the characters she met on a daily basis in her father's grocery store. Some of her major interests include her position as the USAR Ambassador to Idaho which is a job to support the military. She has three children, Kyle, Wendy and LtC Hillary Luton. The illustrations provided have been rendered by Roger Thompson. His work began in earnest while teaching in the