This book, by Julia Donaldon & illustrated by Axel Scheffler (the duo of Gruffalo fame), is a perfectly framed lift-the-flap book for children under five or so. It follows a fox who is searching various locations in his home for his socks, discovering various other items of clothing beneath the flaps on the way. The pictures are delightful, the language is simple & the rhyme scheme satisfying; a great one for reading with the grandkids.*
* Which is presumably why my parents have it, I don't imagine they're reading this themselves recreationally. Yes, I'm still at my family home for the holiday season - I have my own stack of books to read, but this took me a minute or two to breeze through so it doesn't really count as a meaningful diversion from my own list. It is, interestingly, a very appropriate book for me to have clocked in as the first read of the new year - my mother's surname is Fox** and I recieved a surprisingly large number of socks*** for Christmas, so maybe that combination of factors subconsciously oriented me toward this book.
** As such, the house is strewn with artworks, mugs, a stuffed doorstop, etc, that feature or resemble foxes - capped off with a real roadkill fox head as you go up the stairs.
*** About half of the socks that I currently own have holes in the heel or toe, which I personally don't mind, but my parents seem to perceive this as a sad state of affairs.
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