Title: One Blue Sock
Author: Emily Ballou
Illustrator: King, Stephen Michael.
Publisher: Random House Australia.
ISBN: 978 1 74166 083 9 (Hardback)
ISBN: 9780759321335 / 0759321337 (Paperback)
Themes: Being different, What makes you special, What is normal, Being yourself, Believing in yourself…
Once upon a time there was a boy and his name was THEO LEO…
Theo’s a fairly normal boy, except of course that he eats worms…
And he only has one blue sock…
And hops around on one foot lots to save his only sock from getting holes in it…
And has a forever flapping, forever flying fluffy orange scarf…
Oh yes, and then there’s his arms…
But I won’t get into that, not now, not here…
As I started saying, Theo Leo is a perfectly normal boy, whatever normal looks like, perhaps normal is boring, in which case Theo Leo is anything but normal, he’s not boring, he’s fun, he talks to birds, he smiles lots, he enjoys life, turtles hop along after him, simple things amuse him, like flying kites, but he’s not simple at all…
This is a great book about being yourself, having the courage to know who you are and to not be concerned at how others might see you. Theo Leo will teach you that being different can cause you to live an exciting life with different friends, hiding places, and… well… I don’t want to ruin the story.
This is a fun book to read out loud that is also colourfully illustrated by Stephen Michael King (aka Mutt Dog) this book should be sitting beside beds of children everywhere ready for their parents to read the story of Theo Leo to them night after night after night…
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