Socks Books

Entertaining and quirky. The illustrations are colorful, and well drawn, and the story is entertaining.

My daughter received this book for Christmas (she's 6) and we both love it. I've since given it as a birthday gift 3 times. It would be perfect given with a sock monkey.

We had previously purchased Sock Monkey goes to Hollywood, and then found that Ms. Bell had one other book. We hope she keeps writing more. We've recommended the series to everyone, and we recommend it you as well.

The book is intelligently written, appealing to children as well as adult readers, and beautifully illustrated in a slightly nostalgic feel. The disco outfits that Sock Monkey and his partner wear just add to this effect.

This book covers many topics that cause kids to commonly feel overwhelmed - nervousness of being introduced to new people, creatively solving one's problems, and overcoming performing in front of others to name a few. The humor in this book appeals to both my daughter and me, which sometimes is hard to find in kids books.

Just buy this book - it will bring a smile to your face!

As an adult, this would not be the book that I would grab off the shelf, but my kid demanded it. The illustrations are a lot of fun. One cute feature is that the narrative is told by the text, and the dialogue is written in bubbles coming out of the characters' mouths. Also, the vocabulary is simple for early readers to deal with on their own.

This book has a truly unique and happy feel to it. It is the tale of sock monkey, a famous actor, who finds a dancing partner. I got this gift for my little cousin and he loved it! Apparantly there are other books about our famous little actor and I will definitely purchase them in the future. I recommend this book!

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R19ODISYKOSCHR This is a video that walks you through this fun Klutz book. My boys both love this activity book where you make you own pop bead critters. We took it on a plane trip, and I really appreciated having it with us. My children ( 4 and 7 year old boys )enjoyed playing with pets they made. Then of course you get to take them apart and remake them in different colors or configurations.

The only thing I failed to warn you about in the video is the wire end of the spiral binding which will catch on and create a pull in carpet. Other than this minor nuisance it is a wonderful activity and toy set.

perfect fit for small hands...i have a 2,3, and 4 year old who love to play with small figures...this was the perfect little crafty toy ...lets them use their imagination...very good purchase !!

Pop Bead Critters are great fun, there are several different types of animal bodies and you just add pop beads to make them into something else. Three caterpillar bodies, a blue dog and two strange spidery sort of things. The pop beads come in several different types from round to oval to hexagonal.

There is a lovely brightly illustrated book to go with it with lots more ideas to give inspiration. It has given my two pre-schoolers hours and hours of fun. they play games with them, make necklaces, make decorations for the Christmas tree and more.

What I love about these is they are brightly coloured and easy to use. They are recommended for over 3 year olds because of choking hazards, but you will be able to supervise slightly younger children with them. Excellent for teaching counting and early maths skills such as patterning. They are great for fine motor skills.

A fabulous present for your kids - get them the pop bead people as well!

A neighbor gave my daughter this "bead" book. She spent hours making necklaces and creatures. She started to create patterns with the colors and shapes, which I thought was terrific. The book has pictures of all the creatures you can make and my daughter had a lot of fun making them all.

My daughter cackles when I read this book to her. Very funny story and great for a child.

This is a great little story about a girl who needs to lighten up. We all have those moments, kids AND adults! The text is simple and concise, and it's lots of fun to do Emily's "serious" voice and Duck's not-serious voice. The illustrations are simple and cute, but interesting as well.

Our 4.5 year old is endless entertaining his mother and I by exclaiming Duck's lines from this new book. It's captured his imagination more than any other book this year.
Pants on the line!

Reviewed by Cayden (age 3-1/2), Max (age 19-months) Aures and Mom for Reader Views (4/08)

"Ducks Don't Wear Socks" is about a serious girl named Emily who keeps encountering a duck wearing strange things like socks, boots, and a hat. Duck teaches Emily that it is okay to be silly sometimes instead of being serious all of the time.

Cayden: "What does `serious' mean?"

Cayden: "Why is he wearing socks? Ducks don't wear socks! They swim in water."
Max: "Socks!"

Cayden: "The duck is going to work?"

Cayden: "The duck is going to plow a field?"
Max: "Boots!"
Cayden: "Yes Max, the duck is wearing boots."

Cayden: "Look! There is a policeman- is the duck going to jail?"
Max: "Police."

Cayden: "The duck is wearing underwear! That is silly!"

Cayden: "Now Emily is being funny too! She is dressed up like a duck!"

Parent's comments:

"Ducks Don't Wear Socks" is a silly book that teaches children that even though it is okay to be serious, it is still important to have fun and laugh sometimes. My children both thought that it was hilarious that a duck was wearing all of these different articles of clothing. The illustrations are very entertaining as they show the duck engaged in a lot of non-traditional duck activities. The text is great and the humor will have your children laughing out loud!

Jose Canseco. Barry Bonds. Jason Giambi. Human growth hormone. The cream and the clear. Steroids. The saddest part about baseball today is that these are the words we think of. However, the past is not free from scandal, and I'm not just talking about the introduction and proliferation of "greenies."

When the 1919 World Series was fixed by eight (arguably seven) members of the Chicago White Sox, the face of baseball changed forever. While it remained America's pastime, an inherent skepticism took hold. This was epitomized by the famous "say it ain't so, Joe" confrontation between "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (the arguably innocent of the eight) and not just any fan, but a child.

Eliot Asinof has done a wonderful job of reminding us that baseball is not a sport newly tainted by strikes and drugs. All the major players are documented. The owner, Charles Comiskey, whose tight pocket book can be partially blamed for the scandal and who tried to cover it up. Baseball's first commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis prosecuted the guilty the best way he knew how and set a precedent that baseball followed into the late '80s with the lifetime ban of Pete Rose (eight years after Eight Men Out was published in 1981). "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, to his deathbed, recanted his confession, calling it something contrived, and professed his innocence. And then there were the gamblers: Joe Sullivan, the contact man; Abe Attell, the man who manipulated the whole thing as a middleman without the money; and Arnold Rothstein, the money behind the debacle. Asinof, despite a lack of modern "forensic" evidence, such as phone taps, followed the information back to the guilty parties. As Asinof relays, this is one of the shames, one of the great failures of the American judicial system following the Black Sox scandal.

What Asinof has accomplished with this story, this true epic, is to remind us that todays era is not that only tainted one in baseball's illustrious history. It reminds us that as long as men have been paid to play a childrens' game they have wanted more and owners have wanted to give them less. In the end, Asinof reminds us that we make it possible for players to make $25 million a year. And we also make it possible for someone like Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds or Jason Giambi to become a "hero." While Asinof does not make me feel guilty, he makes me take pause and wonder how much of baseball's dramatic fall has been a product of the absolute corruption of American culture as opposed to the absolute corruption of a select few individuals.

The year 1919. The city is Chicago. Eight men enter the room of "Sleepy" Bill Burns and conspire to fix the World Series. The money was coming from Arnold Rothstein or "AR" to his friends. Eight men were about to rock the foundations of baseball for greed and the hatred of Charles Comiskey - or was there another story?

Asinoff recounts the months leading to, the days during and the years after the 1919 World Series with amazing detail and clarity. His story is told and as you listen you'll think you are actually there. This audio book is by far much better than the movie.

What you get is 8; count them 8, how ironic, tapes that weave a story of deceit, corruption, and conspiracy on both sides of the law. From Joe Jackson and Eddie Cicotte to Lefty Williams, Chick Ghandl, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch and Swede Risberg the tragedy is unraveled.

The recording was a true pleasure and the actual use of transcripts, reports and other material adds major credibility to the exposing of baseball worst nightmare. Asinoff is to be commended on this first rate work and baseball needs more men like him. A real standout performance!

This review refers to the audio book version.

A great book that shows what led to this infamous scandel with the 8 White Sox ballplayers. Not only will baseball fans want to read this book but anyone who likes to read. It also makes you wonder if throwing games is still going on today.

The scandal of the 1919 Black Sox is probably the most disilluisioning chapter in the history of baseball. Asinof captured the feeling of America and its reaction to the scandal on and off field. The story is told accurately and with great insight. "Shoeless" Joe was a wonderful player who made bad decisions. He can be both admired and loathed by fans who now know that he wasn't completely innocent as the Sox threw the Worl d Series. It shows how baseball perserviered throught the gambling. Baseball tradition has kept the game alive through many adverse situtations and when gathered together make the history of baseball very rich. A must read for ALL baseball historians and fans.

Very enjoyable to look at, I intend to "borrow" some of the ideas for the sign at my church.

Great pictures. Wonderful warm message. Truly a light, fun inspirational coffee tabel book. Though provoking. He did a great job. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Amazon offer at least ten books on a similar theme, either text only or in this case photos. I prefer the latter and Donald Seitz has not only provided some amusing signs but also (and this is the real reason I bought the book) an interesting collection visual Americana.

Although the point of each photo was the sign nearly all of them nicely include some background: part of a street or countryside, passing traffic and a few with the church. The messages (direct from Homily Central?) are a mixture of play on words, different spellings for the same pronunciation or just a simple statement but they are all traffic eye-catching.

Another reason I like this book is because the photos are presented in the classic photobook format: centered and one to a page, none are angled, no fancy angled shots, just straightforward reportage. The visual content and words of each image are strong enough anyway.

The subject matter and Donald Seitz's photos could well support a second volume I think.


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This book is a sign and a symbol in itself. The messages from the signs are often witty word plays, some fun in puns, but the author has only included signs with relevance and meaning. The work is symbolic inasmuch as it participates in the soulutions that it provides. This book will evoke the gamut of emotions from joy to sadness, but with hope, always hope. The photography is excellent.

Monkey Love Was looking for several Sock monkey books to give as a shower gift, along with sock monkey items that I had made: a diaper bag, monkey burp clothes, monkey swaddler, and three monkey books. This particular book, MONKEY LOVE, is a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y darling! I enjoyed all the books, but this was is going to be repeatedly purchased to accompany my homemade sock monkeys. Not a story, but all about love and its many phases. Buy and ENJOY!

Monkey Love is a delightful and inspirational book which displays caring and love not only in the colorful monkey photographs, but also in the heart-felt sayings which accompany those photographs. The 'situations' in which the monkeys find themselves are FUN to look at .... the sand angel, the tongue stuck on the flagpole, the 'unique' monkeys, etc. .... all relate to events and situations in real life. It is difficult to come away with just one favorite. This little book not only makes a nice treasure for my own bookshelf, it also makes a cherished gift - one that comes with lot's of love within. I've already given one as a gift (to my mother-in-law) and it was passed around the room with lots of smiles, laughter, and discussion! This would make a nice item for anyone for anytime - all ages - everyone will enjoy it.

This is a wonderful little hard-backed book and just the right size for little hands. The pictures are so endearing and will enchant little ones as they ooh and ahhh over those little monkeys in their charming outfits and their demonstrations of affection in oh so many ways!
I love the book, I love the Monkeys! Thanks Dee for such a treasure!

edie brown

This is a wonderful little book and is suitable for all ages. It makes an excellent gift, and is great for brightening anyone's day. The sock monkeys in Dee Lindner's work are all unique and expressive, which is probably why people identify with them so much. For anthropomorphizing human emotions onto other things, Lindner is second only to William Wegman's brilliant works with dogs.

The pages each represent a human emotion, feeling, or action associated with love, and all are whimsical and entertaining. My two favorites are the monkey making a sand angel with the caption "love gives you wings," and the sock monkey with his tongue frozen to the flagpole with the caption "love learns from mistakes."

This is a great little book, perfect for a gift, and sure to make anyone smile.

How do we match socks into pairs? Which ones go together? Which ones don't? This book teaches kids about matching two things to see if they go together or not.

I used this book with my classroom. I really like the story, but the illustrations aren't as good as some of the other MathStart books.

My son alwys gets his sister (3 months) a book to look at on our weekly library trips. We read this one to her and she looked at the pictures very closely! My son enjoyed the matching game at the end.

A lonely striped sock is looking for his other pair of sock. He searches the whole places from washer to laundry bag but he can't find a match of his pair. When he almost gives up on his search, he finally found one. However, thing does not seem to be smooth at all times, his mate is torn.

This is a brilliant colored book coupled with snappy rhymes that teaches patterns, early math skill and problem solving skill. Suggested activities in this series will provide parents with ideas about simple math concepts. An entertaining short picture-book that will delight your toddler while trying to figure out the difference between the pair of colourful socks.

I just finished reading this book to my second-grade class. They loved it and have requested that I read aloud the sequel. After the holiday break, the sequel will be our new read aloud.

I loved this book, 'cause it was really funny. And at the end of each book, there was a mystery, so you had to read the next one. I haven't read all of them, but I'm planning to! I'm going to let my parents read them when I'm done, so they know what is going on with the plant that ate dirty socks

This book is fantastic. I read it for the first time many years ago when my mom bought this book for me at a book signing. The author is a very nice woman who took alot of time to talk to me and my younger sister. Now that I have children of my own I made sure that their book collection includes this series. I recomend this book highly it is one of my favorites in the series. My kids thought it was a special treat when I read to them from this book while we were on our way to Florida for vacation. They really got into the book and thought it was really cool that the Charaters were having the same kind of vacation that my children where having.

n a personal note I remember the author coming into our class and reading to us from this book and telling us about the research she did for this book she visited an RV dealer and took a tour of an RV to accurately tell the tale.

Great Job!!!

This is a real good book because it is cool that they have a food war. It is cool how the plants eat flavored socks, and if they are dirty or clean somtimes they will spit them out. I give this book 5 stars because I like every character because they are all funny . I think this is the best book I've read so far. Read and find out what happens next. I think you should read because you will really like the characters. If you are the kind of person that likes funny books you will love The Retun of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. So read the book!!!!

Wow, what an absolutely random book! And yet the captivating rhymes are so charming and whimsical, as well are the illustrations, that I could not help but be sucked into this little explanation of various kinds of pockets. Extremely imaginative.

At last, a children's book that adults will enjoy as much as kids! Beautiful illustrations and amusing story. Celebration of diversity, too.

I give copies to all of my friends for baby showers, new baby gifts and Birthdays. A true "must have" for the bedtime storybook collection.

This clever rhyming book stretches the imagination to consider things like "a pocket for an ice cream is a cone",and gives kids a fun way to learn a love for poetry. My kids love this book and we donate it to their classrooms each year so that their classmates can enjoy it as well.

The rhythm of this delightful book has the most hypnotic affect on my 2 year old! Like Good Night Moon (only better illustrations) this book has that wonderful lulling-them-to-sleep feeling, leaving the child in that safe, loved place that helps them fall asleep easily afterwards. Now my daughter asks for this book every night, and I'm happy to read it to her. We've even got a made-up tune to go with it.

Tomy Millionaire is certainly a unique artist. Although this is considered a children's book, it multi-dimensional - much like the works of Maurice Sendak. Very vreative and surreal.

Oh man. This is a really weird book. Even by Tony Millionaire standards, this is a really weird book. I bought it for my daughter after getting her most of the other Sock Monkey books. But I haven't read it to her yet on account of being too freaked out by the metaphysical weirdness to take another look at it. I'm sure she will deal with it just fine. It's me that I'm worried about.

Suffice to say that the whole Sock Monkey world is not what we thought it was. Nothing is safe. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is canon. The message of this book appears to be that all you really have for certain is what is right in front of you and the experience at this present moment. Memories could be false or mistaken. The future is totally unknown and potentially disasterous. But look, there's the moon.

Most kids can handle this book, I think. It's the parents who will walk away from the bedside with jaw hanging slack and their eyes wide open.

I'm giving this 5 stars despite being afraid to pick up the book again. Any children's book that prompts this kind of serious thought using pictures of a sock monkey riding around in a cart pulled by a pair of yorkies deserves all the stars that I can possibly give.

If you know Tony Millionaire's adult comic, Maakies, you might think that he would write an ironic children's book. This is not the case. Tony Millionaire has a soft side and it's beautiful. This book is absolutely OK for kids. Some of the deeper text might go over the head of a child and even the adult reading to the child, but the pictures and story won't loose their interest.

This book will be remembered as a peer amongst the likes the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. The drawings are astounding. The story is beautiful.

wow! tony millionaire sure knows how to pull the most wonderful surprises out of his hat. not that is surprising to find a cleverly written and brillantly illustrated book by him, but nonetheless, this book is something else. sad and poetic and utterly wistful, children of all ages, and particularly children who have suddenly discovered that they have mysteriously gotten older and things have changed, will find this book quite appealing (and maybe even disturbing, in a good way of course...) i would give this book 5 stars for the last page alone...what can i say...BUY IT!