Bought these last month for my eight year old to wear this coming school year.  Well made, easy on and off, and comfortable. Note the bullet points say leather, but under the detailed description it states synthetic leather, so that is misleading.  Still, these look like leather, and the toe lip will help protect the toe ends from scuff marks. True to size

Update:  Dec. 10, 2010  This was, perhaps, not as durable as I first thought.  Child came home from school earlier this week and one of the soles had torn away and was detached all the way to the instep on one of the shoes.  We did get 5 months of wear out of these for school, so that's not too bad.