Fox's Socks (Tales From Acorn Wood)

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He was the illustrator for Julia Donaldson's first picture book, A Squash and a Squeeze - the start of a hugely successful partnership. Another thing that remains ambiguous, is how the hell did these items of clothing end up in such unlikely places - under stairs, in sideboards, underneath rugs.

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For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The story rhymes, which I find to be useful in a child's story, but the rhyme scheme can be a bit clunky if you pause while trying to open the flap for each reveal. Or are we actually dealing with a piece of classic Marxist literature with the Fox's obsessive relationship to his own socks serving as an allegory for capitalist commodity fetischism? It has a simple rhyming storyline and small flaps for readers to lift to help Mouse and Fox peer into each hiding place.

My only complaint is that the flaps are very difficult to open at first and we ended up slightly damaging a couple getting them to work. Changed to from 4 stars to 5 stars based on a one-year-old’s immediate love for this book (and insistence on reading it four more times in a row. At school he was good at art, but didn't think of a career in illustration until he won a cuddly purple cow in a drawing competition.I don’t enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy reading some of the other books that Logan has which is why I’ve only given it three stars. With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud, the Tales From Acorn Wood have been delighting both parents and toddlers for over fifteen years.

More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.Overall I think Fox’s Socks is a fun, involving book that will keep children entertained however many times they read it. Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination. Still not sure how to interpret it, though: Is it a philosophical exploration of the psychological concept of object permanence and the Freudian fort/da? Very young children will love lifting the flaps to help the fox to find his socks, but they will undoubtedly also point out all the other socks that appear to be lying around the house.

Discover more stories in the Tales from Acorn Wood series: Rabbit's Nap, Hide-and-Seek Pig, Postman Bear, Cat's Cookbook, Squirrel's Snowman, Mole's Spectacles and Badger's Band. This was a pre-loved book and one that instantly intrigued 10 month old Bud, and I think will for a few years yet. There are a lot of everyday items dotted about, like an umbrella and a fireplace, which children can have fun naming, or even finding in their own home.I'm not going to give this a star rating, as I don't really know how to translate this into numerical form. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. I hadn’t seen this book before we got it, so it was nice to have a completely new one for me to read and discover at the same time as Cupar. Her collaborations with the fantastic illustrator Axel Scheffler have led to vivid rhyming stories which are a feast for the imagination.