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

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Overview

(hfour)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...(/hfour)

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 ins and outs of the world's pockets.

This special book will leave readers young and old with pockets full of joy!

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ISBN-13:	9780060295264
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/02/2004
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Garton Scanlon is a poet, writer, and teacher. A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes: A Pocket Book is her first picture book. Ms. Scanlon lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two daughters.

Robin Preiss Glasser has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including the bestselling Fancy Nancy series, Lambslide, Escape Goat, and Grand Jeté and Me: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids. She won the Children’s Choice Award for Best Illustrator of the Year for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet. Robin actually wore tiaras and tutus when she danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Now she happily spends her days in jeans, drawing. Robin and her family live in Southern California.

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Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-In lively, rollicking rhyme, this book explores and stretches the concept of pockets as it follows four diverse families throughout a day as they interact with one another. In various settings (the zoo, a rural home, a city apartment), pockets become a lyrical metaphor to contain sounds, actions, objects, and behaviors. For example, "piggies love a pocket full of mud," "A phone is a pocket for a ring," "a bowl is a pocket full of soup," and "A pocket for a family is a home." Glasser's fresh, bright watercolor-and-pen illustrations are perfectly married to the text and tie the whole concept into a cohesive whole by extending the meaning of the words and enhancing the action. Surrounded by white space, the artist's drawings present inviting snapshots of a busy day. Astute readers will enjoy watching how the adults and youngsters intersect and interact with one another. A spur to imaginative thinking, this offering will encourage parents and children to examine their surrounding and create their own pockets that echo the themes of the poem.-Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha's Public Library, WI Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

In bubbly verse and playful imagery reminiscent of Mary Ann Hoberman's classic A House Is a House For Me (1978), Scanlon expands the idea of a "pocket" to include bowls, balloons, and bathtubs, hats, horseshoes, homes, and more: "A phone is a pocket / for a ring, / a bell is a pocket / for a ding. / A pocket for a duckling is a shell, / and a pocket for a farmer is a dell- / hi ho." Glasser sends a diverse quartet of families with young children through a day of shared and individual encounters with all of these pockets, depicting figures and settings in various combinations with typically fine, sketchy, exuberant pen work. Tucked in with the closing thought that hearts are pockets full of love, the children at last snuggle into their beds-leaving young readers and listeners seeing their own worlds in a new way, and primed for Ruth Krauss's antediluvian, but still mind-expanding A Hole Is to Dig (1952). (Picture book. 6-8)

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