Author: Beverly Clearly
Title: Socks
Illustrator: Beatrice Darwin
Genre: Children's Fiction
Subgenre: Comedy
Theme: A cat name Socks dealing with the arrival of a new baby in his household.
Primary/Secondary Characters: Debbie, George, Socks, Marilyn and Bill Bricker, baby Charles William Bricker
Award(s)/Publication Year: no awards presented/1993
Publishing Company: Morrow Junior Books
Brief Summary/Book Usage: Marilyn and Bill Bricker adopt Socks when he is just a kitten. Being a newly married couple, Socks is the center of their attention. Marilyn becomes pregnant and soon the couple is bringing a baby boy home named Charles William. Socks has to deal with no longer being the center of his owners attention, although he fights for the attention the new baby is receiving. I would use this book in my future classroom when talking about the arrivals of new brothers and sisters in a household to see if the children could relate to how Socks felt in this book.
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