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One Red Sock
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A little purple hippo faces a dilemma. While getting dressed one day, she realizes that she is missing a red sock. But as she searches throughout her sock drawer, she cannot find a suitable replacement. From blue to green and gray to white, nothing she finds will match. But does that really matter? This new picture-book offering from Jennifer Sattler (Bully) reminds reader
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First sentence: In a big pink chair in a room full of dots...sat a purple hippo wearing one red sock.
Premise/plot: The star of this new picture book is an adorable purple hippo. She is a frustrated hippo. She can’t find a match for her red sock. It is completely missing. So what is a hippo to do?! Will she throw a fit? Have a meltdown? Ask for help? Or brainstorm a solution all her own?
My thoughts: I recommend reading this one at least twice. The first time I read it, I was so wrapped up in th ...more
Premise/plot: The star of this new picture book is an adorable purple hippo. She is a frustrated hippo. She can’t find a match for her red sock. It is completely missing. So what is a hippo to do?! Will she throw a fit? Have a meltdown? Ask for help? Or brainstorm a solution all her own?
My thoughts: I recommend reading this one at least twice. The first time I read it, I was so wrapped up in th ...more
This book is so cute!! I loved the rhymes. This would be an awesome storytime book!
Excellent, fun color concept book! It would be fun for the reader to also wear only ONE red sock.
This is the second book I've reviewed by author-illustrator Jennifer Sattler. Like BULLY, ONE RED SOCK also is light on text but full of bold, larger-than-life illustrations which will amuse young readers.
How many purple hippos do you know who live in a room full of colorful dots? And how many can't seem to find a red sock to match the one she already has on? Young readers will enjoy meeting this unique hippo, identifying colors, and learning the rhymes.
In the end, after trying out a rainbow of ...more
How many purple hippos do you know who live in a room full of colorful dots? And how many can't seem to find a red sock to match the one she already has on? Young readers will enjoy meeting this unique hippo, identifying colors, and learning the rhymes.
In the end, after trying out a rainbow of ...more
My daughter absolutely loved this book. She thought that the hippo was just the cutest thing ever. She loved the colors and thought it was hilarious when she found where the other read sock had been hiding.
Fun rhyming book, great for a preschool storytime or a lapsit, especially if the kiddos are good at rhyming and can predict what color will come next. Cute and sweet, with large enough illustrations for a good-sized group.
This friggin hippo is so cute.
You may have noticed that my grandmother gifts the girls absolutely delightful books for their birthdays and Christmas. When our younger daughter turned four in September, my grandmother sent her a wonderful choice in One Red Sock, even pairing it with some red socks! One Red Sock, written and illustrated by Jennifer Sattler packs a laugh-inducing punch while reinforcing color concepts for younger audiences and leaving older audiences with a strong life lesson.
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One Red Sock, 2019
When a purple hippo wearing one red sock can’t find it’s matching mate, she starts looking for a fashionable replacement. She tries on several different colored socks, but none of them seem just right. The persistent hippo decides she will not let it ruin her day and continues searching through several more colored socks but slowly gets impatient with the task. Finally after some thought, she pulls on a polka dot sock and although it isn’t perfect, she likes that it ...more
One Red Sock, 2019
When a purple hippo wearing one red sock can’t find it’s matching mate, she starts looking for a fashionable replacement. She tries on several different colored socks, but none of them seem just right. The persistent hippo decides she will not let it ruin her day and continues searching through several more colored socks but slowly gets impatient with the task. Finally after some thought, she pulls on a polka dot sock and although it isn’t perfect, she likes that it ...more
The positive of this book is it is a new take on colors. Otherwise, it just doesn't work for me.
The idea is a hippo is wearing one red sock but wants to wear two socks. So they keep putting on random socks, hoping to find a match. Apparently, this hippo doesn't look at the socks before putting them on and doesn't consider taking the red sock off to find a complete pair.
The hippo is cute, but drives me crazy-I want to ask 'did you look at that before putting it on your foot? Why are you surpris ...more
The idea is a hippo is wearing one red sock but wants to wear two socks. So they keep putting on random socks, hoping to find a match. Apparently, this hippo doesn't look at the socks before putting them on and doesn't consider taking the red sock off to find a complete pair.
The hippo is cute, but drives me crazy-I want to ask 'did you look at that before putting it on your foot? Why are you surpris ...more
This is a well-written book which teaches rhyming and colors and is great for the preschool crowd. It is fun to read and the illustrations are pleasing. The book follows the adventures of a hippo who can’t find a matching sock. As the book develops she loses patience but doesn’t lose her temper and instead makes the best of a situation.
This is an excellent book for toddlers and young preschoolers. The story is cute, the illustrations are adorable, there is rhyming and color recognition and it is written in a way that allows kids to complete the sentence with the rhyme/color. It is a relatively simple book, but really fun to read aloud.
This was sweet and had a slightly surprising and very satisfying ending. A color-teaching, rhyming book for the very young, but one in which the reader will definitely want to guess the answer before the page turn. There were a few hiccups in the meter, but overall, a delight for very young kids. And the hippo is adorable!
Adorable! (I'm totally biased due to my love of clothing books - shoes, socks, hats, you name it). Will definitely be using this for toddler storytime AND making it into a flannel board story. Ahh, so cute.
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This is one of my new favorite books. It can be used in storytime using the rhyme to guess the color. The illustrations are fun and the author has a great little note about perfectionism at the end. Love it!
I love it!! What a great read-aloud with colors, and rhyming, and guessing! Great for storytimes. The little purple hippo is just so cute and precocious - I love it! And I like the author's brief message in the endnote.
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I wonder how this would do for a storytime? I have too much experience right now personally speaking with mismatched socks due to my beloved child and therefore might read this in a strange tone of voice.
Adorable story to practice rhyming with children. Interactive and great for storytime! Little Hippo is trying to be fashionable and perfect and needs to find the correct sock. If at first you don't succeed, try again!
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A simple story about trying to find a matching sock and going through lots of other colours (and pattern) before getting it right. This would make a wonderful flannel/felt story.
Fantastic rhymes for story time.
Kids had a lot of fun with this one.
Kids had a lot of fun with this one.
I love, love love love this new book! I already have plans to use it in my toddler storytime.
Delightful!
cute, especially good for young preschoolers
This is an adorable book dealing with colors and missing socks. A cute hippo trying on different socks but none of them match. So cute the solution she came up with.
SUCH CUTENESS
This will be great at story time
So cute! And a great idea for a storytime book.
Hippos. Colors. Rhyming. Fun. Can have kids guess the color. Loved it.
A new storytime favorite!
This cute rhyming picture book would be good for a storytime about clothes or colors as a little hippo searches for her matching red sock.
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Jennifer Sattler is the author and illustrator of several picture books including Sylvie, Chick 'n' Pug, Pig Kahuna, Chick 'n' Pug Meet the Dude, Uh-oh, Dodo!, and her latest, Pig Kahuna Pirates. After several years of teaching college students, she realized that her "inner goofball" needed to come out. Once she started making books for children, she was hooked. "I really am a 5-year old at heart,
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