Milly, Molly and Sock Heaven

Text: Gill Pittar

Illustrations: Cris Morrell

Year: 2002

Publisher: Milly Molly Books, New Zealand

Age: 4 – 6 years

No. of Pages: 24

Book Type: Picture Book, Life Skills Education

ISBN:  942 1 00960 025 0

Milly and Molly are best friends. Their adventures are inspirational, educational and encouraging  for little ones. 

In “…Sock Heaven”, Milly and Molly investigate the case of a missing sock. As always, Gill Pittar injects gentle humor and zing.  

Excerpt

And Farmer Hegarty’s socks looked far too big and woolly.

Doctor’s Smiley’s socks were black.

Bush Bob’s socks were stripey. 

Wanda’s Washing Machine

Author: Anna McQuinn 

Illustrator: Jan McCafferty

For Ages: 2 – 5

No. of Pages: 16

Publisher: Little Tiger Press, Great Britain

Year: 2005

This is a delightful book about a little girl Wanda, her mum Wendy and their washing machine, Walter.

Wanda is a messy eater and Walter helps clean her clothes. The story revolves around Wanda’s food messes and Walter’s cleaning up. There’s a pop-up game attached to the book. Unfortunately, since I had a library copy, the game was nowhere around.

Excerpt

On Wednesday, she spilled watercress soup and watermelon juice down the front of her woolly white pullover.

“This is a job for Walter,” said Wanda’s mum, and she put the washing on.

“Eat dirt!” shouted Wanda. And that’s just what Walter did.