When a little purple hippo cannot find the mate for her red sock, she tries everything in her sock drawer in order to be fashionable--or at least to match.

Fox needs new socks to hop. Fox needs the best socks. Not smelly socks, or socks with holes, or mis-matched socks. In this silly book for beginning readers, fox shows off all the wrong socks before finally finding the right pair. -- from Amazon.

"It's Phil and Dale's favourite time of the week - the WASH! But when the two socks get separated, Dale must face the prospect of life on his own."--Page [4] of cover.

After gifting a pair of stinky socks as a prank to his friend Pig, Fox finds out that some tricks do not work out exactly as planned.

"The love story of two socks goes awry when one of them gets a hole"--

"Dream your dreams, my child, and knit them into the wool." A long time ago a girl named Claire learned to knit by her mother's side. As the mother knit mittens, scarves and all sorts of clothing for the wealthy people of the town, Claire set about knitting stockings to keep her toes warm. Claire, her mother and father, you see, were poor. They lived in a stone hut, with little wood to burn and meagre food to eat. So Claire knit stockings and--with...

The reader is invited to help Duck and his animal friends find a missing item.