3 out of 4 stars
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Sigfried’s smelly socks, a twenty-six page book, is a pictorial book that tell the story of a young boy called Sigfried. He is trying to find out the reason behind his book terrible smell. Different ideas of where the terrible stinks can come from flash through his mind before he picked that there are pile of dirty socks he kept under the bed. Sigfried analysed the descriptive ways of how his different socks are stinking. At the end of the story, he concluded that the book he was reading stinks more than his piles of socks.
There are many interesting things about the book but the one that caught my attention was where the author started describing his stink socks with different names, it give me the rigor to continue reading till the end. The different names he used include; rotten banana, squish-mushed chewing gum, pizza slice, peanut butter. The pictures used are well positioned and it fully described what he has in mind. The message he is trying to pass across is clear and easy to understand.
Sigfried’s smelly socks book will be best suited to teenagers between the age ranges of two to fifteen years old. It teaches the teens on how to keep their clothes clean in order to avoid the stinky smell that comes out of it. It pattern a bit to the adult in which they can use the side effect of the dirty socks as described by the author to tutor their children on what will happen if they refuse to take proper care of their cloths.
Teens can share the story and the loving, interesting pictures used in the description of his thought in class and during their leisure time. Furthermore, the Author can rewrite the book in a short stage play that will be very interesting and lesson-filled. The play can be tag: the essence of hygiene in the house in which the disadvantages of poor hygiene will be thoroughly dealt with.
I rate it 3 out of 4 stars due to the fact that only children in their tender age will find this book of great interest. Also, there is a worst spelling error on page 19 in which Spaghetti was wrongly spelled as Spagetti. The book is all round good apart from the few reasons stated. My future children will see the book. Good Work Len Foley!
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Sigfried’s Smelly Socks!
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