Author: Robert Munsch
Illustrator: Michael Marchenko
Age Range: Ages 3-8
Genre: Picture book
Initially, I knew Robert Munsch as the author who wrote the tearjerker children's picture book, Love You Forever. That book initially wrenched my heart in half as I sobbed the last part of the book out to my children as they watched in disbelief as their mother crumbled into an emotional soggy mess. But I learned from my daughter's preschool teacher that Robert Munsch wrote many many other titles aside from that one. (Incidentally, Robert Munsch's favorite book is NOT Love You Forever.
Smelly Sock is a totally different vein of writing. In it you get a sense of Munsch's incredibly quirkly and engaging style as he outlines the life of a girl who gets a pair of socks, loves them so much, and decides not to wash them. Eventually animals and plants wither in her wake, simply from the odor that pervades from her feet. The townspeople band together, pick her up and throw her into water to wash her feet.
This book is funny with great illustrations and details very amusingly, the life and times of a young girl who won't wash her socks. She is a bit irreverent as she stubborn insists on certain things during the book, but overall, the book is funny to read and enjoy.
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