A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket Book

by Liz Garton Scanlon

Book Overview

A cave is a pocket for a bear,
a breath is a pocket full of air.
A hat is a pocket for your hair,
and a seat is a pocket called a chair...

A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket Book is a whimsical pocket full of bells and balloons, ice cream and mud, giggles and hugs. Elizabeth Garton Scanlon's delightful verse is captured in Robin Preiss Glasser's energetic artwork, which follows four families through a busy day exploring the surprising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060295260
• ISBN13: 9780060295264
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

I LOVE BOOKS THAT ENCOURAGE "OUTSIDE THE BOX" THINKING!

Although this book is several years old, I just found it today and fell in love. As a literacy consultant, I always look for rhythmic, imaginative books and this one fits the bill. See how many "pockets" you and your child can find in your world that aren't named in the book! This book is especially appropriate for preschool children or children in K or 1st grade where a focus on and exposure to the rhythms and patterns of the language is extra important.

Random and whimsical

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.

One of Our Favorite Books

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.

fun rhymes with excellent imagery

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.

perfect lullaby book!

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.