Socks
By: Beverly Cleary
Genre: Juvenile fiction
Pages: 160
Published: 1973
Read: August
3 out of 5
I
vividly remember loving this book as a child. For the life of me, I wish I could remember
why. Don’t get me wrong, this book is
likeable and cute, but not much happens. There was a happy cat, the couple has
a baby, the cat is forgotten, the baby grows up, and then the cat and baby
become friends. I wanted more Lady and the Tramp adventures, more laughs and a
much more mischievous cat. Ramona Quimby, the famous Cleary character, was a girl
who always got into trouble and was constantly cracking me up. I thought Socks was going to be the cat equivalent,
but (at least reading as an adult) I didn’t see it. Most of my enjoyment of
reading this story, this time around, was how dated it was. The few ’60 –70’s
references was when a cracked a smile.
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