This book is one of the most wonderful books that I have read in a very long time. Just from my sentence you should tell that this book is a MUST read for all of you out there that like adventures but with some mystery. The book The Blue Shoe by Roderick Townley is an engaging and fun story about a poor boy named Hap that lives in a far away land (not known to Americans) called Aplanap. The story is mostly set in the boy Hap's shoemakers shop, however this is not Hap's shop. This shop is an older man's shop Grel's.