Astro Socks
Astro Socks
Leigh M. LeCreux

Reviewed by Ashley Merrill

This children’s book is not only a fun story to read, but it offers hope to young children. Telling your children that they can grow up to be anything is an important lesson to teach them. This book helps with that. Leigh M. LeCreux tells the story of a boy named Chris. He is ten years old and wants to be an inventor. That is a pretty big job for a ten year old. He decides that he wants to invent a sock that will not fall off his baby sister’s foot. His baby sister is always losing her socks because they just will not stay on her little chubby legs.

The story continues and Chris actually does come in contact with someone that is interested in his ideas. Chris portrays himself as an adult because he is afraid the man won’t listen to him if he finds out he is only a child. The man decides that he wants to meet Chris, so Chris knows the gig is up. He tells his parents, who are at first shocked and a little disappointed that their son kept this a secret from them. They then realize that their ten year old son’s dreams may come true and decide to talk to the man from the big company and meet him.

Chris finds that the man liked his idea of cotton elastics not for baby socks, but for spacesuits he has been trying to design for astronauts.  Chris is at first disappointed because he really doesn’t care about that; he wanted to invent something to help his sister.  The big business man is so indebted to Chris for his simple, yet genius idea that he also uses that same material to invent the socks Chris thought up.

The moral of this story is that if you put your mind to it, and you have parents who encourage you, you really can accomplish anything you want to. Even if it seems too hard, you can do it. This is a great story to reinforce that value in children. It also teaches the importance of family and being open and honest with all of your family members. This is a great read for all young children! 

 

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