It presents good values for children to learn. My mom read this book to me when I was growing up and I still enjoy reading it. However, the sweater did not fit her husband and she gave the sweater to the old man because he did not have one.

The couple with the cow still traded with the old man because the wife only needed one more sock to finish the sweater she was knitting for her husband. When the milk and cheese ran out and so did the old woman's yarn, only one sock was left. The old couple traded a pair of socks for milk and cheese. Their neighbors own a cow, but the couple does not have any money to buy milk or cheese.

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Read along on Facebook, tumblr, Twitter and Etsy Not to mention it's my son's favorite Kent, so it's only fitting it should be the first review of the week. I love that the children 'quiver' and 'quake' with fear. I love that the Snortsnoot is shaking salt on the little girl before he eats her. I love how at pivotal moments, all the characters seems to have these dark circles of worry under their eyes, and how Dooly has them throughout the book except at the end when they get traded out for rosy cheeks. I love the fact that Dooly's shirt is always falling of his shoulder, as if he's not quite big enough to fit into anything (even when he does get big enough). For a book about giants, it's the little things that make it so divine in my eyes. Such a fantastic moral! And such a wonderful story, really, on so many different levels.

After all, not until you do a VERY BIG THING, can you become a VERY BIG THING. It's not until an evil Snortsnoot arrives on the scene that he grows the courage to become what he's always longed to be. He tries to 'FEE FI FO FUM' and terrify his friends, but they just think he's funny. Yea, so sadly this Dooly never does get any bigger. Now, while your size is just right for YOU, it's a bit small for a giant. And they had a son, named Dooly, who wasn't any bigger than you.

The father giant was taller than a two-story building. Soooo worth it!) There was once a family of giants. (Cheap skate that I am, I even paid $20 for a pretty flimsy Weekly Reader Book Club edition. One of the most collectible of Jack Kent's books, this seems to be the title most people remember having read as a child.

Socks for Supper by Jack Kent