Where’s My Sock? by Joyce Dunbar, illustrated by Sanja Rescek.

This bright-colored and vibrant book captures the frantic search for a lost piece of clothing, in this case a yellow sock with clocks on it.  Pippin can’t find his sock, so his friend Tog helps him look.  They try all sorts of drawers, baskets, pockets, shoes, and find a huge pile of socks, but when they are sorted into pairs, there is no yellow sock with clocks on it.  When Pippin finally decides to wear mismatched socks, they discover the yellow sock in the one place they didn’t look.   The pictures in this book are done in bright tutti-fruity colors that add to the fun, fresh feeling of the text.  A large part of the book are the wild color combinations and patterns of the many socks that are found.  This is a perfect book for preschool storytimes with the right kind of humor, a familiar situation taken to the extreme, and exactly the right amount of text on each page.  Add this one to your clothing storytime or shoes and socks storytime.