A sock is a pocket for your toes, a vase is a pocket for a rose. A pocket for a chicken is a coop, and a bowl is a pocket full of soup— uh-oh! A bowl is a pocket spilling soup.
From A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Copyright © 2004 by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. No part of this book may be used or repoduced without written permission from HarperCollins Publishers, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. All rights reserved.