Mabel and the Sock Pirates - Childrens Picture Book

I have been reading a bedtime story by video to my grand daughter aged 16 months during the lockdown and she loved this book and so did her mum. The idea of a sock tree is brilliant and Mabel the cat is adorable. The rymes are good and the author keeps the story simple. The illustrations are lovely and not the usual bright colours you usually get in children's books but more natural. The story is short making it suitable for very young children as they love the rhymes and the song song way it's written even if they have a short attention span. I have now bought Mabel and the cloud Dragon and I hope he intends to write more Mabel books.

Mabel lives on a farm with the owner Farmer Bill. They have lots of fruit, vegetables as well as animals on the farm but the thing that grows the best are the magical trees. They grown magical socks in all different colours and patterns. One day a ship of pirates spot the magical trees and try and steal the trees. Clever Mabel is up in a tree guarding the precious sock trees and spots them. She tumbles, falls over the socks and lands up getting covered from head to tail in socks. This frightens off the pirates and they see her shadow and think she is some sort of monster. The story ends with Mabel curled up smiling and asleep after her unfortunate adventure.This story is suitable for young children and the story rhymes in a fun way that will keep children engaged and the description of the socks and the pirates could introduce young children to new and exciting words to learn.I found myself laughing at the story and the illustrations are very funny. The author is also the illustrator. I highly recommend this fun and entertaining book.

This is a wonderful picture book for children aged 2+. Farmer Bill lives with his black and white cat, called Mabel. Along with the normal things that farmers keep – sheep, cows and vegetables – Farmer Bill has a more unusual crop. He has magical trees which grow socks! When some pirates sail by they decide to steal the socks – can Mabel stop them?Beautiful illustrations and a text which is joyous to read aloud, make this a very special book. I downloaded this as a bedtime story for my little nephew, but I would like to buy the picture book, as I think this would be ideal to read at story time to any Nursery / Reception age class. “The Deep and Snowy Wood,” also by Elwyn Tate, is also highly recommended. Both are original, quirky and really wonderful reads for young children.

My son loves the Mabel stories we read them every night. We hope for more Mabel adventures soon. We enjoy how they rhyme.

Lovely illustrations and a fun rhyming story, really pleased we found this little gem. We got the kindle version but wouldn’t hesitate getting the real copy as well.

words and illustrations are brilliant, will done on creating this children's book. not much more to say about it really

I am a big fan of Elwyn Tate's book. I like his style of drawing. I found the technic of drawing / painting in this book has advanced in more detail compared to the T-Rex one or maybe just different style. I wish I can contact him directly and ask for some ideas and opinion of self publishing. My 4 years old daughter loves his stories ! Keep up the great work Elwyn !!

I absolutely love this story and so does my daughter, we had the digital download of this book but we love it so much we needed to have a copy of it. The story flows beautifully and it rhymes throughout. The illustrations go well with this story. It’s a perfect bed time read.