This is one of the cutest little love stories I have ever read.
Sock and Mitten meet up when Mitten is hanging out on a fence post and Sock takes a tumble out of a traveling laundry basket. They team up and go on a little adventure through a city (it's kind of unusual because if they were people this would be a story about dirty, roughed up homeless people in love.)
Sock gets all stretched out from being tugged apart by dogs (after he's shrunken from the wash). Mitten becomes unraveled after they almost die being run over by a train. But Sock, through whose actions I have myself fallen in love with him, gets a pair of knitting needles and a Knitting-How-To book and works all night to put Mitten back together. And in the end, even though she's a bit lumpy and misshapen and he's all rugged and stretched out, they make the perfect pair.
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007.
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