Socks Books

This book goes into more extensive vocabulary, including blends, the schwa sound (a and the) and digraphs. Kids need decodable text. The animals are wonderfully drawn, story lines sweet and simple. The animals become friends to children.

These are four of my favorite Beverly Cleary books, even though they are not very well known. They are sweet and funny just like all her books. My sisters and love these books and have all of them.

Bless Your Socks Off - couldn't put it down - it will uplift you and help give you insight to many of life's situations. You will be blessed and be able to bless others for having read this excellent book. Am ordering more to give as gifts!

After purchasing this book and tea set for my daughter, we have become famous in our preschool for hosting many elegant tea parties. The actual tea set only has two place settings so it isn't much use for more than you and a friend, but the ideas inside are super cute and easy to do. My daughter loves to help make the food and set the table for her parties. I keep a few of these on hand for birthday gifts and it is always well received.

The Crypto-Capers in the Case of the Missing Sock is a fresh and new mystery that all children will love. It is filled with suspense and adventure. It is unique then other mysteries because it is interactive. In order for the reader to solve the case they must solve the cryptograms and puzzles. The reader is actually participating in the story. It is written for all abilities and can be used by teachers as well as the parents in many ways to help encourage reading and to work on reading comprehension. It is a fabulous book and highly reccomended as a great read.

My grandaughter loved it. The variety of the activities and the "instruments" included for them gave her lots of fun. As all of Klutz books this one is great!

My 18 month old son enjoys all of the "lift-the-flap" books from this series. This one in particular has gotten a lot of use because it is about a fox finding his clothes and my son is now learning the names of different clothing items.

Don't change something that is good. Josh Lanyon probably knows the lesson and so in this new book, he re-invent the pair that made famous the Adrien English series.

Perry is a 23 years old struggling artist with a penchant for mystery novels and the eyes full of unlikely romance. He is not at all the type to live alone, asthmatic and without the means to take care for himself, he was kicked out of home when he came out to his parents. Probably they would see some reason sooner or later, but Perry thought well to leave the city and banish himself in a creepy country manor turned boarding house. While trying to survive selling his paintings he also entertained an online romance with Mr Right, a romance which burst like a soap bubble the first time they met.

Running home with the tail between his leg, Perry has the unpleasant surprise to find a dead body in his bathtub; the only thing he can do is searching help and the only man available at the moment is his grumpy neighbor, a reserved ex marine, Nick. Reluctant, Nick searches out Perry's small apartment, where he doesn't find any corpse, but only some clues that a body could be there. Clues that, when the police arrives, are missing.

Nick has no intention to be involved, he is moving in another city in few weeks, but the puppy eyes of Perry are too irresistible. Even if Nick is a divorced man, and Perry the openly gay artist, it soon appears clear that Nick is the one with the sexual experience that should be of Perry. And not only, even if Perry has some good idea on the why of the dead body, it's Nick who has field experience to conduct an impromptu and domestic investigation. As in every worthy mystery, all the tenants of the manor could be the culprit, for different reasons: I had my idea, and this time, it wasn't the right one. As always when I read a mystery, I can't say much on the story, since I don't want to spoil the story: enough to say that usually I'm quite good in single out the right ipothesis among the various the author features. This is a classical mystery, where the author opens various possible paths, and the game is to single out the right one.

More interesting for me was the relationship between Perry and Nick. Nick was so cold and controlled that I almost feared that they would arrive to the end of the story without doing nothing; I consoled myself with the warning the publisher enclosed to the blurb, of possible situations that readers could find objectionable... and that I would find objectionable if I hadn't find them! Anyway, after establishing that Perry didn't have any experience, Nick, instead of behave like a stoic man, and leave the kid untouched and unknowing, thought well to seduce him, probably thinking to do him a favor. Tsk, tsk Nick, not at all a good behavior for an hero, above all since he hasn't any intention to stay around and take care of the kid afterward... doesn't he know that a knight in shining armor who debauch a virgin is expected to do the right thing? Truth be told, Perry didn't object, and then he was a 23 years old virgin! maybe he thought that it was his last chance...

One of the classic baby books. It has stood the test of time, and been beloved by infants and toddlers for over 50 years. There is a simplicity and comfort that soothes little ones before bedtime.
Reading it creates a wonderful bond between parents and children.
This board book is packaged with baby socks and makes a thoughtful gift to new babies.

I couldn't put this book down! Being a bit of a maths-phobic it took me by surprise, but once I'd started to read about the fascinating world of everyday maths I was hooked.

Forget algebra and algorithms, not to mention quadratic equations, here is maths explained in terms of missing socks, card tricks, birthdays, games involving cutting up envelopes, flipping a coin, sudoku puzzles and much, much more. I now know what a palindrome is, and am starting to see a whole new (potentially beautiful - no exaggeration) side to maths. If only I'd understood these things while at school, it would have brought a whole new dimension to those dreaded maths lessons! There's plenty to engage everyone here, from the maths-phobic to the maths mad. Rob Eastaway may just have succeeded in making maths more popular and understandable to anyone who reads his book. A great book. Very readable.