The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Book
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Definitely a fun, silly, and funny must-read series for young kids.
I love, love, LOVED these books as a kid! As I recall, it was one that my mom read to me, and she loved them too. In fact, to this day, there are two rather large plants in our house that are named Fluffy and Stanley, after the sock-eating plants of these books. (One of our plants is a variety of palm tree and the other is...um...I'm not quite sure, but it's slowly taking over the world).Definitely a fun, silly, and funny must-read series for young kids.
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On an added note, I went online to look up the author (Nancy McArthur) and to see if she wrote anything else. Imagine my surprise when I discovered she wrote eight other books in the series! If you loved this book, then go read the sequels! They're just as funny, and they always take you just a few steps closer to discovering the origin of the plants. At least, I hope so. I haven't gotten to the end of the series yet.
If Ms. McArthur ever reads any of the reviews on here, I'd like to thank her for writing this book. It's brought many happy moments into my life and the lives of my kids.
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While we were discussing it, a student came into the library.
"Hey!" says my coworker. "Would you read a book called 'The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks?'"
"Um...do I have other options?"
Books for kids are still silly and fun (see Captain Underpants, Dan Gutman's 'My Weird School' series, etc.) I th
One of my coworkers brought this up as a childhood favorite, so I ordered a used copy from Amazon. It was goofy and relatively amusing, as I remember a lot of the kids' books from that time period being.While we were discussing it, a student came into the library.
"Hey!" says my coworker. "Would you read a book called 'The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks?'"
"Um...do I have other options?"
Books for kids are still silly and fun (see Captain Underpants, Dan Gutman's 'My Weird School' series, etc.) I think that overall, though, we have a much better selection for them today. It's almost as if publishing has figured out that kids are people too, with complex ideas and more on their mind than the possibility of sock-eating plants.
The kid in me still wants a giant alien plant, though.
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Oh well. Maybe I will maybe I won't I vaguely remember reading this back when I was a kid. Actually I think we listened to it on audio. Now I'm wondering if I want to reread it. I enjoyed it back then. But I might not now.
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Food for Thought: Would yo
Think owning a plant is boring? Think again! Norman and Michael, two brothers, send away for seeds in the mail. They keep the plants on a steady diet of plant food, water, and scraps of junk food. As the plants grow bigger and bigger, Michael discovers that his dirty socks keep disappearing. Are the plants responsible? How will their parents take it? Did the plant just try to talk? Found out the answers to all these questions and more in this funny science fiction book.Food for Thought: Would you ever think of a plant as a pet? Would you want one that ate socks? How do you think people would react if they knew?
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This book makes you think about what you would do if you somehow became an owner of a plant that ate dirty socks. How would you explain the missing socks? How do you keep from your parents finding out? What is really going on with this plant?
I read this book when I was young and I loved it. I wish I still had a copy. I highly recommend to the mid
This book has everything a young reader needs to be entertained: a fun concept, a supernatural element, quirky yet realistic characters and overall fun.This book makes you think about what you would do if you somehow became an owner of a plant that ate dirty socks. How would you explain the missing socks? How do you keep from your parents finding out? What is really going on with this plant?
I read this book when I was young and I loved it. I wish I still had a copy. I highly recommend to the middle school readers.
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Shenanigans ensue when the boys try to keep their sock-eating plants a secret from their friends as well as try to convince their parents to keep the massive plant
Messy brother Micheal and neat brother Norman often fight over the messiness or neatness of their room, but that all stops with the arrival of seeds Micheal didn't remember sending away for. Both boys take a seed and raise it, but it's not long before socks start disappearing and the boys realize both plants have an appetite for socks.Shenanigans ensue when the boys try to keep their sock-eating plants a secret from their friends as well as try to convince their parents to keep the massive plants. I read this aloud to my children and they loved it.
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Very creative and fun to read, I think it's very fascinating and its language aren't hard to understand. Also exciting adventures. Michael and Norman are very different. Norman is very neat, but Michael is very dirty and untidy. So, they made a line to separate their room. One day, Michael's new giant plant ate his dirty socks! And to make it weirder, Norman's giant plant ate his clean socks!
Very creative and fun to read, I think it's very fascinating and its language aren't hard to understand. Also exciting adventures. ...more
My friends and I walked or rode our bikes all over town. We spent a lot of time playing at each other's houses. About the only time we needed to be driven anywhere was Saturday or Sunday afternoon, to go to a movie in a nearby town. In winter we went sledding on a not-very-steep hill and skating on ice which the fire department made by flooding an area near the school when the temperature was below freezing. The ice was just a few inches thick on the ground, so there was no danger of falling through.
In school, I was good at reading, writing, spelling, and social studies. Math was hard for me, but I kept trying and did all right with it. Reading has always been one of my favorite things to do. My parents liked to read, so our house was always full of books, newspapers, and magazines. They always gave me books in addition to my other presents for Christmas and birthdays. Some of my favorites were "Ferdinand" (I loved the pictures), "Caddie Woodlawn," "Treasure Island," "Little Women," and Nancy Drew books. Getting my first library card also opened up even wider worlds to me through reading.
I got interested in writing on my own outside of school when I was ten or eleven. An aunt gave me a page-a-day diary, and I started writing in that, a sentence or two a day about what I was doing. Then my father brought home an old typewriter. I wanted to play with it, so I wrote a little story about something our family had done. That gave me such a great sense of accomplishment that I wanted to do more. By the time I was thirteen, my New Year's resolutions included "to write more stories and get one published." About a year later, I had an article published in my high school newspaper. It was a dream come true, and I kept writing.
After college, where I was editor of the student newspaper, I worked in writing jobs, mostly in public relations, and wrote articles for magazines and newspapers in my spare time. Then I got a part-time job teaching journalism at Baldwin-Wallace College and started writing books.
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