Socks for Supper

Author: Jack Kent

Publishing:  Parents Magazine Press

Number of Pages: Hardcover--29 pages

Genre:  Picture Book

Reading Level:  Ages 4-8

Summary: An old man and his wife live in an old house in the country and are very poor, the only food that they have comes from their turnip garden. One day the old couple decides that they are sick of eating turnips. Close by live a couple who own a cow, and the old couple decide to trade something for some of the cow’s milk and some cheese. They search their house but they can’t find anything to trade with, so the old woman decides to make a pair of socks out of the old man’s sweater to trade for the milk and cheese. The old couple loves the milk and cheese so much that the old woman keeps making socks to trade with till one day there is only enough sweater left to make one sock. Now the old man has no sweater but they decide to trade the one sock for half a bucket of milk and half a small cheese. The couple with the cow decides to give them the whole bucket of milk and the whole small cheese for just the one sock because the wife of the man with the cow needs the sock because she is making a sweater for the man out of it. When Christmas comes she gives him the sweater but it is too big so they give it to the old man, and it fits just right.   

My Reaction to the Book:  I love this book! It is a book I grew up reading as a kid, but I always loved the pictures and the basic story line, it is fun and a great story to read.   

Potential Problems: Possibly that the old man ends up with no shirt on but other than that the book is great.

Recommendations:  I would definitely recommend this book to people because it is a fun read to have with children and it is just a really cute story.