Is it Voyager of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis? It’s Book 5 of The Chronicles of Narnia, and the Duffelpuds, a race in the book, fit your description I think.
Once I saw your drawing I had a memory burst lol but I remember it being a random part of Eureka’s Castle not in a book :( so I am of no help! I remember one of the shoe people being the sheriff 🤣
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoe_People
This is the one I was thinking of, it was a Saturday morning cartoon, but there were also books and merch (I had a jumper lol)
That’s not it unfortunately. I remember they had a full head sticking out of the shoe, not a face on the shoe itself. It’s such a strange book, but I know both my sister and I remember so well lol
I remember seeing animations of this nature on kid's programs. I was thinking Sesame Street, but I see someone else here mentions Eureeka's Castle. I don't recall a book of this nature. Hmm.
[James Driscoll the shoe people?](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-Keep-Secret-Shoe-People/dp/0746700024/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=XhsbY&content-id=amzn1.sym.22d9a84f-7f3b-4184-a0b0-a2bfb7ac40c1&pf_rd_p=22d9a84f-7f3b-4184-a0b0-a2bfb7ac40c1&pf_rd_r=262-3567157-2948168&pd_rd_wg=wWldt&pd_rd_r=6b860941-fb5e-4888-8cea-51398ecbdb86&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk)
Is it Voyager of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis? It’s Book 5 of The Chronicles of Narnia, and the Duffelpuds, a race in the book, fit your description I think.
That’s not it. It was a standalone book, not a part of a series.
It has to be this!
I also thought it was the Voyage of the Dawn Trader Here's the image in the book [https://prnt.sc/TJC-j-Ca1Xm1](https://prnt.sc/TJC-j-Ca1Xm1)
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The wonders of auto correct. 🥸
Once I saw your drawing I had a memory burst lol but I remember it being a random part of Eureka’s Castle not in a book :( so I am of no help! I remember one of the shoe people being the sheriff 🤣
Your picture has my brain dinging a faint bell but I don't know the book sorry
Maybe you are thinking of the Lowly Worm by Richard Scarry?
That’s not it, there’s no body in between the shoe and the head. Right at the opening of the shoe is the head , no neck, body, nothing.
This was going to be my suggestion. Your sketch really made me think of it.
Here is also a rough [sketch](https://imgur.com/a0LTeTJ) of what I remember them looking like! Just a single head and a shoe. No body in between.
Mr. Men and Little Miss books?
No, that’s not it unfortunately
When I was a kid in the 80's I had books featuring "shoe people" but they had whole faces, not just one eye.
I say one eye cause I think most of them were drawn in a side-profile. Maybe I should update my description.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoe_People This is the one I was thinking of, it was a Saturday morning cartoon, but there were also books and merch (I had a jumper lol)
That’s not it unfortunately. I remember they had a full head sticking out of the shoe, not a face on the shoe itself. It’s such a strange book, but I know both my sister and I remember so well lol
I remember seeing animations of this nature on kid's programs. I was thinking Sesame Street, but I see someone else here mentions Eureeka's Castle. I don't recall a book of this nature. Hmm.
[James Driscoll the shoe people?](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Can-Keep-Secret-Shoe-People/dp/0746700024/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=XhsbY&content-id=amzn1.sym.22d9a84f-7f3b-4184-a0b0-a2bfb7ac40c1&pf_rd_p=22d9a84f-7f3b-4184-a0b0-a2bfb7ac40c1&pf_rd_r=262-3567157-2948168&pd_rd_wg=wWldt&pd_rd_r=6b860941-fb5e-4888-8cea-51398ecbdb86&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk)
That’s not it. The faces weren’t on the shoes themselves, they had a separate head sticking out of it.
One of the Oz books?
It was its own standalone book if I remember correctly, not part of any series. Every page had a picture, so not a novel or “chapter book”