Odd socks
(Book)

Sosh and Suki, a husband-and-wife pair of socks, come to live in a child's room. Full-page illustrations alternate with smaller images to show the socks in action as the child moves through a variety of daily activities. Time passes happily for the sock pair, until Suki develops a hole and then abruptly disappears. Sosh's search for Suki takes him through many adventures around the house. He despairs of being an odd sock and never finding his mate. Using bright, fluorescent colors with the appearance of watercolors and pastels, the illustrations cheerfully capture the secret lives of household objects, and humorous wordplay adds to the fun. Luckily, everything ends happily: Suki and Sosh are reunited in the toy box, after googly eyes, glitter, and glue transform the couple into sock puppets. Their appearance may now be odd indeed, but at least they have each other! The underlying message of acceptance that no one has to look the same, and pairs or singles can be OK is a heartening one that will be comforting for many little ones.--Whitehurst, Lucinda Copyright 2017 Booklist

PreS-Gr 1-In Robinson's out-of-the-box rhyming ode to sock pairs, one sock couple enjoy their time together on feet, hanging on the clothesline, swimming in the wash, and curled up next to each other in the sock drawer. However, after one sock finds a hole in his wife, she soon goes missing. Her husband decides he will search for her, declaring, "There's no point in being a sock on your own!" His quest leads to adventures that end with the house's pet dog tearing him in two. Eventually both damaged and now-mended socks reunite in the toy bin-repurposed as sock puppets. Ashdown's watercolor illustrations, with soft, colorful pencil outlines, are whimsical and sketchy, perfectly matching the text's tongue-in-cheek humor and playful narrative. VERDICT Pair this title with Eve Bunting's Whose Shoe? for guaranteed storytime fun about clothing that's been lost, found, and happily recycled. A winsome purchase for most picture book collections.-Brianne Colombo, Pequannock Township Public Library, NJ © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

A pair of socks who live in a child's drawer become separated but finally reunite as toys: "'A match made in heaven--now this is the life!' / said sock puppet Sosh to his sock puppet wife." The rhymes are by turns clever, corny, and punning ("Oh, darn it!" says one sock), and the confetti-colored art has a high-energy, low-fuss quality. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Sosh and Suki, a husband-and-wife pair of socks, come to live in a child's room. Full-page illustrations alternate with smaller images to show the socks in action as the child moves through a variety of daily activities. Time passes happily for the sock pair, until Suki develops a hole and then abruptly disappears. Sosh's search for Suki takes him through many adventures around the house. He despairs of being an "odd sock" and never finding his mate. Using bright, fluorescent colors with the appearance of watercolors and pastels, the illustrations cheerfully capture the secret lives of household objects, and humorous wordplay adds to the fun. Luckily, everything ends happily: Suki and Sosh are reunited in the toy box, after googly eyes, glitter, and glue transform the couple into sock puppets. Their appearance may now be odd indeed, but at least they have each other! The underlying message of acceptance—that no one has to look the same, and pairs or singles can be OK—is a heartening one that will be comforting for many little ones. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.

PreS-Gr 1—In Robinson's out-of-the-box rhyming ode to sock pairs, one sock couple enjoy their time together on feet, hanging on the clothesline, swimming in the wash, and curled up next to each other in the sock drawer. However, after one sock finds a hole in his wife, she soon goes missing. Her husband decides he will search for her, declaring, "There's no point in being a sock on your own!" His quest leads to adventures that end with the house's pet dog tearing him in two. Eventually both damaged and now-mended socks reunite in the toy bin—repurposed as sock puppets. Ashdown's watercolor illustrations, with soft, colorful pencil outlines, are whimsical and sketchy, perfectly matching the text's tongue-in-cheek humor and playful narrative. VERDICT Pair this title with Eve Bunting's Whose Shoe? for guaranteed storytime fun about clothing that's been lost, found, and happily recycled. A winsome purchase for most picture book collections.—Brianne Colombo, Pequannock Township Public Library, NJ