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They say Luigi always ran barefoot. And they speak of his greatest challenge—the race nobody thought he could win, not even Luigi himself.Maybe it’s urban legend, or maybe the true events have acquired added luster in Dan Paley’s memory. After all, a story this amazing couldn’t possibly be true, could it?Suffused with nostalgia for soft summer evenings in a city neighborhood, with kids playing in the street, neighbors visiting, twilight seeming like it would never end….A tall tale that kids will never tire of.Aaron Boyd’s colorful illustrations vividly recreate an urban Philadelphia street and its houses, shops, and memorable people.Fountas & Pinnell Level M

Dan Paley lives with his wife and three young boys in Irvine, CA. This is Dan Paley’s first children’s book, based on the stories he tells his boys of his youth on Regent Street in Philadelphia, summer evenings in front of the row houses, and one boy in particular who ran faster than the wind, always barefoot. . . .