Picture Books 2: Squares and Socks

Hello friends, and those with a healthy dose of curiosity! I bring to your attention Squares and Little Sock Makes a Friend. As with the last library picks, my kiddo (he’s two) picks a book and I pick a book for us to read. These two books worked for us and we got a lot of milage out of them!

 Squares by Pamela Hall and illustrated by Sharon Holm is about squares! It’s what I would call an early math or science book. A cat and dog play and eat together, all involving square shaped items. This worked so well because we pointed out together all the square shaped objects. I tried to get him to find square shaped things around us, but after reading his attention was exhausted. That’s not to say I didn’t try again later, and yep, he knows what squares are and how many sides they have. I call this a win for both of us. This was his pick and worked out well for us.

 Little Sock Makes a Friend by Kia Heise and Illustrated by Christopher D. Park is about a sock making a friend. My kiddo asked me to read this about a dozen times. The art work is bright, colorful, and a lot of fun. As an adult, I love that the sock sneaks into a tube in the dryer to find another land full of socks. Everyone, with kids and without, relates to a missing sock. My missing ones sit on dressers waiting for their lost friend to come back. Anyway, our sock finds a friend in Sock City. For the two weeks with these books, I was asked to read this one on repeat. I will end up buying it. Additionally, there is another book that features Little Sock.