Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts, Candlewick Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7636-4284-6
A young boy yearns for that special pair of shoes, the ones that just about everyone seems to have, except him. He finds a pair at a thrift store, but they are too small. He buys them anyway. In the end, he gives them to someone else who wants that pair of special shoes just as much as he did.